How you can be truly brilliant

Brilliance

(Exceptional talent or intelligence)

1. Stop complaining.
2. Put on a smile every day, irrespective of what you're going through.
3. Don't bother people with your problems all the time.
4. Fight your demons and don't give up.
5. Help your people fight their demons.
6. Go through hard things but remain strong.
7. When the time comes, let your walls down.
8. Be able to get hurt.
9. Lie about being hurt to protect others.
10. Attempt to fix you.
11. Take the pain that your people feel.
12. Let them take your pain, but not so easily.
13. Give up the small pleasures and cherish the big ones.
14. Allow yourself to be changed by your people.
15. Care about your people even when you're empty.
16. Don't let anyone worry about you.
17. Be worried about the ones who matter, all the time.
18. Fall down.
19. Pick yourself up.
20. Laugh at yourself.

And this is how to be brilliant. As a person, a person who has flaws and a person who go through life without being served on a silver platter.

This is what my friends are. This is how they live life every day.