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hasn’t texted you back, your salad order came out wrong, there’s a HUGE line at Starbucks, your cab driver is rude, you just can’t get your FREAKING eyeliner wings to match . . . It’s those days when everything just SUCKS.
    We all have those days. LORD knows I do. All the time. Some days I sit in my room and sob to Taylor Swift music just to be dramatic and then Snapchat selfies of myself with my mascara running just to be all emo. Other times I go to my friend Jenni’s house, and Ibake gluten-free pancakes and listen to sad music.
    But on my lowest of days, when my friends aren’t around to hang out with me, I sink to lower levels . . . What I do had been my little secret until . . .
    My friend borrowed my phone and noticed that I had text messages in my recents from
    Ryan Gosling,
Drake,
Zac Efron,
and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
    She immediately said, “OMG, YOU’RE TEXTING RYAN GOSLING?!”
    But before I could grab my phone back, she clicked on the chat box and saw it was her messages to me.
    That was awkward.
    Basically I do this thing sometimes where when I’m really sad I text my friends for advice and when they reply I change their names so it looks like I’m getting messages from hot male celebrities. Then I can read it and think, “Oh my god, Drake is so sweet to send me uplifting quotes.” (Usually, this is actually my friend Denise.) Or “OMG, Ryan really doesn’t have to send me cute pics of mini-potbellied pigs! That’s just too kind.” (That’s my mom with the pics.) Or “Zac . . . is so clingy sometimes, but so adorbz that he really cares for me.” (Summer, of course.)
    Yes.
    I am insane.
    But I’m okay with it.
    As far as I’m concerned, anything that helps you get through the day is okay. As long as it’s not illegal. (If it’s illegal, don’t do that. So not worth it.) But THIS ISN’T, damnit. And if I want to have a dream, I damn well WILL.
    JUDGE ME. #haterzaremymotivatorz

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HOW TO GET OVER A BREAKUP

    Whether someone has just broken up with you, or you have broken up with someone, leaving a relationship is never fun. Even the most dysfunctional couples can suffer a sadness that comes with the end of something.
    I have been on both ends and neither is easy. I think a lot of the times we think we’re supposed to feel better if we’re the one who ended things, but what I’ve learned is that life and love and relationships are way more complicated than that. It’s often depicted as the classic “you can’t fire me, I quit!” thing but that’s not always what it feels like. Sometimes we break up with people because we know that, ultimately, it’s the best thing for them or for us, not necessarily because we want to. Doing the right thing is sometimes the hardest thing in the world. No joke.
But this particular chapter is about how to get over someone breaking up with you.
    Although, honestly, this advice pretty much applies to everything.
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It’s okay to cry. Like seriously. Crying is really therapeutic. Sometimes I honestly look forward to getting in a nice, good sob. Keeping your emotions bottled up isn’t healthy. If you’re sad and you wanna cry, do it. Ending a relationship is sucky; waterworks should come. Turn on The Notebook , grab a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and go cry your eyes out. It can feel good to be cliché! I guarantee you’ll feel better afterward.
2
Write a super-honest letter to your ex, but whatever you do DON’T SEND IT. Write out everything you feel and the reasons why you ended it or why you think they ended it or why you think they’re a total a-hole. Unleash all of your feelings, frustrations, and honest sadness. Then burn it or rip it up. Destroy it. (Sometimes the destroying is even more cathartic than the writing.) I know it sounds really cheesy, but I swear it works. Then dance to your favorite