Amanda Dahlquist

10 Things People Say To Me That Brighten My Day

Out of the millions of characters we combine into sentences each day, these simple phrases never fail to make my day a little brighter.

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks its own hair follicles.

While I am grateful for what they do, I can’t help but also see the humor in the messages I receive.

This spring is different, but the feelings are still the same.

Saying “I love you” does not merely convey a way you feel but a way you are.

Being a guarded person, sharing personal things about my life has been very stressful.

I feel like I am constantly in a state of waiting.

How can I be friends with someone I have no trust for? How can I turn to you as someone to confide in when you took my confidence and shattered it?

We hear bad news and we aren’t even surprised. Of course another tragedy occurs; that is what happens in our lives.

I believe in calling loved ones regularly,
telling them ‘I love you’
and being specific about why.