Learning to live.

The 5 most important things I've learned about living...

#5: Stop overthinking.
I seriously have learned this the hard way so many times. When you allow yourself to overthink you create problems and situations that aren't real. It is the easiest way to ruin something that had nothing wrong with it.  
Matthew 6:34 "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own."

#4: Don't compare yourself to others.
There is no one else exactly like you. No one can be you, just like you cannot be anyone else. What may be your strength can be someone else's weakness. What someone else breezes through could be your biggest struggle. You were made as you are. Be proud of that and embrace it.
Psalm 139:14 "I will give thanks to You, for I  fearfully and wonderfully made..."

#3 - Learn to be alone happily.
You will never be able to be happy until you learn to be by yourself happily. If you depend on others for your happiness you are not truly happy. Learn to unplug and enjoy yourself. And remember, if you have a faith you are never alone.
Deuteronomy 31:6 "Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid and tremble at them, for The Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."

#2 - Meet your problems head on.
Seriously, stop trying to run away from your problems, it is a race you will NEVER win. If you run away from them you will spend your entire life looking over your shoulder waiting for them to catch up with you. Stand up and  face them head on. You will never be free from them until you do.
Romans 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us."

#1 - Do not wait to find out you are dying to start living.
So often people wait until they find out something bad is happening before they really light a fire in themselves about living. What a wasted life. We should live each day with such zeal and fire that if it indeed was our last it would have made an impression.  Do something worth while with your life.  Leave a great impression on others.  Live in a way that when you are gone people look back upon your life and know that when you died you had shown people what is what to truly live.
John 9:5 "While I am in the world,  I am the light of the world."