[color =green]Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life.
Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a
given law of life to really get it into your skull, and
other times one powerful experience drives the
point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve
discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants
by this point in my short time on earth.
1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to
try.
2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn
calories than to refrain from consuming them in the
first place.
3. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know
well, you may be talking to someone who knows
way more about whatever you’re talking about than
you do.
4. The cheapest and most expensive models are
usually both bad deals.
5. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point
quickly.
6. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and
trying to force them away makes them run deeper
and last longer.
7. Children are remarkably honest creatures until
we teach them not to be.
8. If everyone in the TV show you’re watching is
good-looking, it’s not worth watching.
9. Yelling always makes things worse.
10. Whenever you’re worried about what others will
think of you, you’re really just worried about what
you’ll think of you.
11. Every problem you have is your responsibility,
regardless of who caused it.
12. You never have to deal with more than one
moment at a time.
13. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re
wrong a lot.
14. Managing one’s wants is the most powerful
skill a person can learn.
15. Nobody has it all figured out.
16. Cynicism is far too easy to be useful.
17. Every passing face on the street represents a
story every bit as compelling and complicated as
yours.
18. Whenever you hate something, it hates you
back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.
19. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works alone can teach
you everything you need to know about living with
grace and happiness.
20. People embellish everything, as a rule.
21. Anger reveals weakness of character, violence
even moreso.
22. Humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can
destroy its capacity to keep us alive. And we are.
23. When people are uncomfortable with the
present moment, they fidget with their hands or
their minds. Watch and see.
24. Those who complain the most, accomplish the
least.
25. Putting something off makes it instantly harder
and scarier.
26. Credit card debt devours souls.
27. Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction
of what’s going on in the world . It’s just way too
big for any one person to know it well.
28. Most of what we see is only what we think
about what we see.
29. A person who is unafraid to present a candid
version of herself to the world is as rare as
diamonds.
30. The most common addiction in the world is the
draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks
people.
31. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there
is probably a better course of action.
32. The greatest innovation in the history of
humankind is language.
33. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who
dislike responsibility.
34. Everyone you meet is better than you at
something.[/color]
