the Life Lessons thread.

[adhi]

what life lessons worth sharing have you learned recently?
how did you come to learn them?
how have they changed your life, for better or worse?

use this thread as an opportunity to document your growth as a person. you could also hang back and watch to see if you can glean something worthwhile and relevant to your life and hopefully improve it and it's course.

feel free to be as specific or unspecific, or personal or impersonal as you see fit, but try to substantiate your posts with necessary context and evidence.

[adhi]

i'm expecting schiaparelli to hit her stride in this thread. :-)

[sknss]

#1 life lesson:
pull your hands out of your pockets when you take the stairs or you'll fall head first and eat the steps

[adhi]

#2 life lesson:
if you try to make plans with teenagers or young adults, always have a back up thing to do. they are a fickle people and logistics is not their forte.

[purkinje]

#3 life lesson:
don't worry about things you can't change.

[Prince of Scandinavia]

#4 life lesson:
When you are at the most busiest point in your life, then your grand parents are at their most loneliest. Visist your grand parents once in a while guys! You'll never regret it (smiling)

[exprof]

#5 life lesson:
the fear of doing something is (almost) always worse than just following through with that thing

[parastexis]

#6 life lesson
The only, only way to learn a life lesson is to experience it first hand

[ramdomthought]

#7 life lesson
skyping with people can be very fulfilling

[RycePooding]

#8: don't be afraid.

[omgimacarrot]

#9 life lesson
don't settle for someone or something less; always strive to be better

[can-]

[hmwut]

#11

if you won't remember it in five years(or less), it probably isn't a big deal

[odradek]

#12

you are not your job

[rjbman]

#13 life lesson:

you are not gonna make/keep friends by sitting on your phone the entire night.

[kyung]

[hot coffee]

#14

If you have to ask someone for advice just go with the more conservative course of action.

[thatbiglake]

nn

[can-]

#15 don't give unsolicited advice and don't try to fix anyone

[chilljin]

#16

'don't forgive because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace'

on a more serious note don't waste all your energy getting worked up in life, what may seem like the end of the world now won't even be a blip in your memory in years to come, whereas you will always look back fondly on the good times you had

[UnwashedMolasses]

#17

Let yourself feel sadness

[stappard_]

#18

You don't have to buy it just because you tried it on and bugged the shop guy for ages about it

[thatbiglake]

nn

[purkinje]

A friend of mine always says "live life at an unsustainable frequency." He just turned 18 and is spending the next two months walking and hitchhiking from Sarajevo, up to Germany, through the Netherlands, down through France, and hiking the entire Camino this summer, relying only on the kindness of some strangers he's met who will let him sleep on their couches for a night.