Introduction.

​My is Hannah Augusta Rose. I am a 22 year old girl, born and raised in Greensboro, NC. I love music that involves actual instruments and I love people who cause a scene. I chase boys too intensely and I forget more than I remember. I am a whole lot of fun. My favorite feeling in the entire world is when you laugh so hard, no noise is exiting your body, and for a few seconds you are so choked up in joy, your heart almost stops. I live for moments like that. I also like to wear black boots with a heel, they fit every season. I enjoy a good competition. I work in the beauty industry for a living, so appearance is obviously very important to me. But if we are being honest, appearance is important to everyone, which is why I’ve decided to write this book. Being beautiful is 75% an act. I’m going to teach you how to do it. 

Now, for starters, I am not by any means addressing myself as “all knowing”. I can’t even get the guy across the street to date me, let alone get a waiter to text me back. I am, by no means, judging anything or anyone. I am just saying that I spend two hours a day at maximum with several different kinds of people and what I have learned from listening to these people is that life moves incredibly fast. There is no controlling it. You never really know whats going to be handed to you. Life is always changing. Now there are three things that matter when traveling at high speed: 1. You know who you are and you who you are not. 2. You do not accept partial love. 3. Always trust your gut. I know, it sounds fucking cliche, but its true.


Something happens at 22. You think you know who you are and then all of a sudden you truly begin to face forward and what you know doesn’t really fit or make sense anymore. Your every day life becomes foreign. It almost like what I imagine waking from a coma would be like. Moving slow motion in a regular speed frame. You never really feel a connection. Then suddenly you find yourself making important life decisions through a clouded mind. You become lost in ambiguity. 


Heather Herron, who I will explain later, always said, “If you’re looking for a good way to tell someone bad news, there isn’t one. If you think it’s going to be terrible, it’s going to be terrible. It will be hard. There is no getting around that. You will get through it and you will be fine. But right now, you’ve gotta choose you. No one else ever will. You’ve got to stand up for yourself, before you stand for anything else. If you don't like something, change it.” 
So, I decided to start my life over. I decided to live my life the way I wanted it to be. I had no plan or any sense of direction. But I chose me.
 And I never looked back.