Be an occasional hot mess

Drink one too many cocktails, hook up with wrong yet so right person, be awkward, wear an inappropriately short dress, dance when no one else is, write an email you shouldn’t send, buy something beyond your budget because it makes you happy, stare at someone a little too long on the subway, have a public cry, let your mascara run, show up unprepared.

A dose of hot mess can be freeing.