Did you see it? Simply put there’s two paths Gwyneth can take and with each one her life will be completely different. She chooses one. But is it the right one? Only time will tell, but she will never know what really could have happened if she went the other way.
Upon entering college the big…
Never say you fell out of love with them.
“That is the most painful thing to hear. No one wants to hear that. I don’t want to hear that. I always say ‘don’t take what you don’t need’…their ego, their pride. Some people think it’s best to be open and honest ….but think about the potential long-term effects. If they still have feelings for you those words will stay with them well beyond being with someone else. - 40-something on breaking up with ‘respect.’”
Embrace Imperfection.
“Early on someone told me I was “a soft-spoken perfectionist.” I thought about that for a very long time. Now I try to not be such a hard-lined perfectionist. Sometimes, imperfection can be a beautiful thing.”
Live each day like it’s the last day.
“My grandfather had this saying, “Money comes and goes. Sometimes you have a lot of money and sometimes you have no money, but if you have a brain, that’s what’s important. Just work on your education and work. Invest in yourself, the rest will follow. Maybe that’s to my detriment but I’m just not a planner. I just live every day like it’s the last day. I can’t say it’s always been easy but I don’t regret it.”
Give yourself butterflies in your stomach everyday. You have to find ways to make yourself excited about life.
To know that “the one”…will love your imperfections.
One day the person you fall in love with will love that one thing about you that you think is an imperfection.
To listen to the “buts”.
“We’ve all heard someone say, “everything is perfect but” about a relationship. The “buts” usually are in comparison to a long list of positives.It’s easy let all the good things about having someone in your life put a rose colored hue on the red flags. But if the one negative is something that goes against your values it carries much more weight.”
Good headlights
“Going from your twenties to your forties is like driving cross country. Let’s pretend it’s night the whole time you’re driving. You have your headlights on driving. You can only see so far but you’re still going to make it to L.A. even though you can only as far as the headlights. That’s what got me to L.A. I was like I don’t know what to do once I get there but I’m a smart woman and I will learn how to network and I will figure something out. You don’t always have all the answers beyond the headlights but the headlights will get you there and you will find the right opportunities when you get there.” -40-something who drove from Pennsylvania to New York City to Florida and LA and then back to Pennsylvania and learned a lot along the way. Married , runs her own consulting business
Be strong in your opinions and hold steady to your opinions but do not be judgmental.
“You havent’ gone through enough cycles in life to know what it’s like to be on the other side. We all make the best decisions we can with what we have in front of us and what we have inside of us. Someday you may end up doing that same thing and saying ‘OMG, I can’t believe I was judging the other person.’”
“I would say to my twenty year old self that it is one thing to be committed and tenacious and kind but don’t forget about yourself in the process.”
“I’m somebody who wants to fix things. I have a compulsion to see things through when it comes to relationships even when it involves some personal misery. This has gotten in the way of getting my own act together. Which is partly why I’m going back to graduate school at I’m forty. It took me this long. There’s a piece of me that procrastinates. I allow my tenacity to put off decisions for myself.”
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