1. Life Is Beautiful
*in my best Ke$ha voice* I’m in love alright, with this crazy beautiful life! *twirls* I love life…it’s just so unpredictable. It’s just so challenging. It’s just so beautiful…and I love every minute of it! But sometimes we forget to chase life. We forget to appreciate the beauty that life is. So take a second and realize that we are living a miracle. Stare at the stars, listen to the storm, and whisper your dreams to the clouds. Love the life you live.

2. There Are Words Of Wisdom In Your Tears
This may sound a little sick, but we have to learn to appreciate our worst moments. We have to remember to have faith in our journey, and trust that being down does not equate to being out. You see, I find peace in my tears (though I’ll never admit to having them). But seriously, I’m the calmest at my lowest because I know that it’s almost over, the valley that is. Once I’ve reached my valley there is nowhere to go but up. I get to climb. I get to rebuild. I get to reflect on my vision, and learn from my mistakes. So wipe your tears, and remind yourself that nothing but wisdom can come from this lesson.

3. Love Is Universal, But So Is Pain
 Sometimes we forget that everyone has their own battles to fight, and that’s absolutely horrible. The fact that we get so consumed in our own lives that we neglect to notice the pain of our neighbors is the true sin of the human race. Yesterday, I was in the grocery store picking up a few things for my mother, and I ran into a women tearing up near the deli. Now if you know me(,) you are aware of my awkwardness, I mean well…but I’m just weird! *Kanye shrugs* So I awkwardly said, “now the meat selection cannot be that bad today”….and she started crying even harder. Through her tears, she explained to me that her 46 year-old husband had a heart attack earlier this week, he was in ICU, and she was just trying to keep it together. I was in shock, I immediately felt her pain. She was in fear. In fear of losing her husband. In fear of raising her children alone. In fear of the future. 

4. Self-Love is a Requirement
I say this often, but I need you to fall in love with yourself. No seriously, it’s a requirement. I need you to fall more in love with yourself every day. I need you to speak to your own soul and see its beauty for what it is. I need you to sense the purity of your own spirit. Sometimes we forget our own power. Sometimes we forget our own strength. Because sometimes we forget our own beauty. So here it is, I need you to fall head over heels, I’m not crazy-I’m just a little unwell, Cory loves Topanga, Kanye loves himself, drunk in love with yourself. You have to love yourself to truly love others. And we need more love in the world…

5. Change is Necessary
 In a few weeks I’ll be packing up all of my things, and moving across the country alone. The key word there is ALONE. Lol I know no one. No seriously, I know of no one in the whole state. But it’s time. I’m getting too comfortable here, and nothing good comes from getting comfortable. When you get stagnant it’s time for a change, for a shift in reality. I need to be thrown into a new environment. I need to fight. I need to win. Change is a necessity, embrace it.

1) STANDARDS! STANDARDS! STANDARDS!
Your standards should be as high as your heels ladies! *snaps in Z formation* lol my dad used to scare guys away from my older sister! No seriously, he low-key threatened them! Years ago, my older sister was talking to this guy that lived down the street and my father found out. That evening he power-walked over to the kids door with his walking stick, rang the door bell, and told him to stay away from his daughter. It turns out that my dad knew that the kid was also talking to other girls on the block, he was protecting her heart. Dads know who the true players are, remember that they were young once too. #gamerecognizegame 

2) Ohana Means Family
And family means no one gets left behind. My dad had 3 daughters, so he was forced to live in an estrogen filled household. *kanye shrugs* my sisters and I did what sisters do best, we fought. No seriously, we real-life battled it out daily! Lol I can still remember the look on his face after each match-up between us. He would just watch until we were done, and then say: "that was a waste, because you still have to love her." At the time I didn't get it. I honestly didn't understand what family meant until I lost my dad. Days after his passing, my mom gave us a letter he wrote during his last day in ICU. His hands were shaky, he was weak. But he managed to get out the words: take care of your sisters. And it was then that it clicked; Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind.

3) Call Me, Not Mommy 
Dads help you get away with everything! Whether it's a bad grade or a bad decision, i vote that you always tell your dad first! Be honest, he's the nicer one. Daddy is always on your side, even when you're wrong...and he can protect you from your mothers wrath. 

4) Your Invisible Tiara Exist 
My name is Amira, and yes it means princess! *grabs tiara* But my dad made me feel like a princess before I knew the meaning of the name. You see, dads have the power to make you see your light. 

5) Dads Make Everything Better
Whether it's a broken bone or heart they know how to fix it. It's the strength he has when he lift you on his shoulders, it's the sense of pride he has when you win, it's the way he scares away the monsters under the bed and in real life....it's the way he cares. 

1.  No Title Necessary
 *in my best player voice* “Baby girl, you know what we have is so real. So real and so true that we don’t even need a title. Why put a lid on our love when it soars so high?” *face palms into a sigh* Now let me be very clear, if you don’t want a title then you do you! But if you want a title, and he’s insisting on NOT having a title…then you must realize that you are NOT in a relationship! Honey, you’re in a situationship! 

2. He won’t say your name, say your name
 So I have an old friend that has recently ended a long-term…sitiuationship. She was kinda, sorta dating this guy for over year. We’ll call her Miss Doormat, because he walked all over her heart. Last month, she realized that he had a weird habit when he introduced her to his friends. He started off with an extreme emphasis on the word friend. Lol it’s really quite funny when you think about it. He would be like: this is my FRIEND Miss Doormat. The word friend ALWAYS came before her name! And that may seem like a small detail, but it reveals tons about their real relationship. He wanted it to be CLEAR that he would NEVER claim her. If he won’t say your name, then you’re in a situationship.

3.  Your Friends Think He’s Imaginary
 My friends always think my boyfriends are imaginary. Hell, yall probably think my boyfriend is imaginary. *Kanye shrugs* I think I’m just so used to keeping things quiet, that I don’t share anything. I was in a situationship with The Chameleon for over a year. At the time, I thought it was best to keep it a secret, “because things get ruined when everyone is in your business.” When the truth was that it was a secret because I knew wasn’t it real. And I couldn’t have him around my friends because they could see right through my horrible situationship…and try to end it. If you have to hide bae from your friends then you’re in a not so healthy…situationship

 4. He’s “Mysterious”
 How would you describe the man of your dreams? Tall? Dark? And…Mysterious? I hate when girls use that word to describe a guy they’re into. You might as well just be honest. Mysterious is another way of saying NOT YOURS! Is he mysterious because he doesn’t answer your phone calls? Is he mysterious because he plays hard to get? Or is he mysterious because he is NOT YOUR MAN? I wouldn’t want anyone around me to be mysterious…that’s shady! #situationship

5. Meetings After Midnight
I’m going to keep this one brief, I’m not here to judge your life. But if your “dates” only occur during the darkest hours then that isn’t your man. Low-key that may even be someone else’s man. Lol you should check on that. If you only meet after midnight then you’re participating in a situationship!

6. He goes Bye,Bye, Bye
Sometimes guys just disappear…and that’s fine. But please realize that if he goes missing then he is not yours. If he feels free enough to ignore you for days, then you are not in a relationship. Let’s just say that after three days of no contact you’re single. 

 7. Blurred Lines
  Is he your friend? Is he your boyfriend? Can you hold his hand in public? Will you get upset if he dates other women? Are you in Heaven? Or is it Hell? Homegirl…you’re in purgatory! *snaps in Z formation* If you cannot clearly answer any of the above questions then you madam are in a situationship! I have a friend, lets call her the free spirit, and she has a tendency to break-up with guys that she isn’t really dating. So the last guy was horrible! He creeped around and was extremely disrespectful, so she had every right to end things! The Free Spirit sent him a text saying that she wasn’t happy and that they were done. He replied: Did you just break-up with someone that you were never dating?” *face palms* Situationships don’t have break-ups…they just fade away!