Your lessons in life.

[High Hopes]

Well thought out TREG.

My two lessons in life are this:

1. Make things work for you. This is hard to do, but if you can turn an disadvantage into an advantage, you will have begun to fulfill TREG's #2.

2. Do not, under any circumstances, multi-task with your life. I've seen many people with high potential burn themselves out because they tried to do too much at once. Take things one at a time.

 

[Dokien]

The past few months have changed me mentally and physically, generally just made me happier in a lot of ways.

1. Always do something, never rest until your ready for sleep. This way, you feel more accomplished and not in a mood of "Damn, wish I did that today".

2. Keep yourself up-to-date, I'm an avid RSS feed lover, I have it covering my desktop and FireFox. I own an iPod Touch, and I use the WiFi function ALL the time, just to keep myself in the knowledge. I wake up at 7am, go to my local shop and buy 3 of the most important newspapers (The Guardian, The Times and The Sun (The Sun, I read this because I enjoy gossip)).

3. Live hard, die young. Really, I live like this all the time. I smoke, I do the occasional spliff and I enjoy going into mosh-fights. It keeps me invigorated and moving. I want to travel the world, see everything and take photos of my life so I can look back when I'm 30 or something and think "Yeah, I did that!". What's stopping you from saving up a few grand over a few years and travelling the world, the only real thing is to share the experience with someone (Luckily I have a friend that likes this lifestyle).

4. Be happy! Smile, be vibrant and jolly. Not to the point of getting on peoples nerves, but just smile and listen to people. Laugh at jokes that you would'nt normally.

5. Have kids, share the knowledge from yourself unto them. I'd love to have 2 kids, look after and take care of. It may be weird going from "Live hard, die young", but if you live it like that you wont look back and wish you'd of done it.

6. Give your wife/husband the respect they need, give them space, give them love, give them comfort and share everything with them. Don't argue with them, just nod and accept their view. Ofcourse the odd rant with them is healthy and gets things off your chest but keep it respectful.

7. Learn everything, but don't be a smart-alek. I enjoy reading the latest book, or unravelling mysteries and then be fooled right at the end. Stimulating the mind with new things, such as a programming language, or how to build a vehicle, the best sleeping pattern etc. I'm 18 and I'm pretty full up with knowledge but I know there is so much more out there. I did crap at school, but that was because I was living life. I enjoy taking time out to learn things that I felt I should of learnt at school or wish they'd of taught it there. Things like how the world evolves, etc.

A lot of contradiction, but it's really what I want in my future life. Just enjoy it, don't slow down and share your experiences.

 

[Ratty524]

> Everyone has a reason for their actions, regardless of whether it is a good reason or not.

> In the real world, people care less about your self-esteem and much more about your productivity.

> Complaining about trivial subjects does nothing.

> Insulting other people only sets you up to get insulted back. (I know that yet I'm clearly stupid enough to continue doing it)

> Life has no meaning on its own, you have to give it one in order to have a reason to exist.

> Everyone has problems, such that complaining about it does nothing, as already stated.

That's what I can think up so far.

 

[rpgfan_2007]

- You're stronger and more able than you think. Think you can't climb that mountain? You can, and after you do, you realize you were a fool for believing you couldn't. Keep climing mountains, and challenge yourself. It's called growth.

- Don't let people try to control you by inflicting you with their negative opinions. If you let other people weigh you down, you're doing exactly what they want, and you give your power to them.

-Stay Stubborn. Stay Defiant. But do it with a smile.

-Ultimately, we're all alone. One day, we will die, alone. We will return to the cold ground and meet our fate. Your friends, your family, even your own love can and probably will betray you. This is life. Get used to it.

-Find out what you want from life. And spend all your days of your life seeking it. This is called happiness.

 

[Mitch]

Life, no matter which perspective, is about the pursuit of happyness.
Most people never gain happiness becuase they dont live in BALANCE.

 

[Spades]

Two things I like to go by.
Believe the ones who are looking for the truth.
Doubt the ones who find it.
and
We may not be responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the ways we react when they do happen.

 

[Prexus]

1. Don't underestimate the value of High School. Not just what you learn academically, but the lessons you learn about managing your work, being prepared, and working in teams are more valuable in life than the logarithmic formulas you learn in calc.

2. As TREG said, being pleasant to -everyone- will only make your life easier. There is no downside to being a good person.

 

[Venetia]

You never know who's going to turn out to be famous, so make yourself "available".

Spoiler

Sorry, sorry ... I can't help myself. Heh

 

[shiroun]

Amazing how venetia is always the one to be the last poster in this type of thread.

1) Only be bold when you need to be, otherwise, cower, women are powerful.

 

[benku]

Dont rush your self and give your self, time to take in life as much as you can,.And dont let anything stress you out becuse the more you rush things the more nothing will ever get done. Then i learnd the worng way in doing that, rushing to work one day just ignoreing everything around me and i got hit by a car for not paying, mind on whats in front of me. i lost my legs in doing just that so thats my life lesson.

 

[CIPWM74]

I wrote this list about 2 or 3 months ago:

You don't look as stupid as you think you do

If you can see him, he can see you

Everyone hates sarcastic people

Always think the opposite of what you're going to say to see if it works better

If you don't care, just pretend to

Do what the signs say, always

Follow your instincts always, but make sure you know what they're saying

No matter how smart, popular, stupid, athletic, rich you are, you'll be happy as long as
you're with your friends

If someone says they hate you, they don't hate you as a whole.

And the most important one:

Love is the most important thing on Earth. Don't waste it, don't abuse, attempting to control it will yield bad results. If you truly love something let it find it's own course back to you.