Instructions for not becoming a disaster:

Use your inside voice even when alone.

Wash your hands. Keep your promises where you can feel them.

Do not dramatize. Do not romanticize. ever.

Punch the freezer door closed with a throw of your shoulder.

Buy flowers. Don’t bring them inside. Leave them in the car until they dry up.

Pull over on the shoulder for no reason except your lungs can’t keep the air.

Send a normal text. Add a normal period. Delete the oomph from the sentence.

Fold the towels. Stack them like good days.

Throw a glass in the sink so it shatters and you can grin ear to ear.

Drive past your exit and keep going until the road feels like a friend.

Sign up for a cause. A marathon. A fight. Anything that lets you bleed real blood.

Stand in a parking lot and bite your cheek until your mouth is pouring something honest.

Smash your 3rd most expensive possession.

Do not stop worrying; Always be thinking (this is really important).

Try sleeping beside a life that is good in black and white, like an herbal tea.

Try being gentle without using tenderness as a leash.

Keep doing the next right thing until the next right thing is all you are.

Until you can’t remember what you even wanted.

Anyways, I’ll see you again next week.