QOTD: Thurs 22 Aug: Lessons learned

[danger_dan]

We all mistakes, and (hopefully) we learn from them.
What is the best lesson you've learned first hand?
"To err is human..." - Alexander Pope

[Patty Smyth]

People are going to say bad things about you whether you are nice to them or not so don't waste your time being nice to toxic people. Get them out of your lives or learn to live with what they say behind your back because it's not you who is the problem, it's them.

[ninna]

Try to please everyone and you wind up pleasing no one...so first and foremost, be true to yourself.

[Natalka]

- Don't take good health for granted. You never know when crap is going to strike.

I was only 22 when I was diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease - and more followed...

[vesper]

Be honest with yourself!

Always!

It's hard, uncomfortable, but it's how we grow.

[froogalism.com]

[Darth Penguin]

Even when you thought you got rid of the Lego blocks...there's always one hiding in the depths of the house waiting to migrate in the darkness...

[Darth Penguin]

Internet caches are forever, I came across some pet photos I posted back in 1994 a few weeks ago..

[vesper]

Internet caches are forever, I came across some pet photos I posted back in 1994 a few weeks ago..

I'm going to make an assumption about why this is a lesson learned! Yahoo!!

[toban]

Never drink a large glass of rum straight. A lesson learned when I was 18. Rum tastes waaay better mixed with coke or pepsi lol.

[Shwa Girl]

What I learned:

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise...

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
[And-which is more - you'll be a Woman, my daughter!]"


If--, by Rudyard Kipling

[Darth Penguin]

I'm going to make an assumption about why this is a lesson learned! Yahoo!!

nope...nothing risqué. Just they had my then on-line persona as the title of the pictures and I recognised all the backgrounds...and copyright marks..


And I can't seem download them cos the software doesn't appear to be compatable with what I currently have..

[Darth Penguin]

Never drink a large glass of rum straight. A lesson learned when I was 18. Rum tastes waaay better mixed with coke or pepsi lol.

I learnt that with a 750 ml bottle if vodka...At 18..THere are times I wonder how on earth I survived to be potentially a Universe spanning dictator..

[i_forget]

I learn all lessons first hand....I am terrible at listening to advice, so I have to suffer consequences.

Anyways, my worst lesson was to listen to my head instead of my heart. There have been a few occasions where I denied what my heart was saying and listened to what my head was saying, and my head was soooooo wrong.

Listen, to your heart, it will not lead you down the wrong path.

BTW, I need $500 for my divorce......jk xxx

[Evil.Kitten]

You'd think a person who claims people should listen to her more when she says random things; would know when to heed her own warnings/advice... Naaaaaaaaah. I learn things the hard way. Always.

In the last year I've learned to stand up for what I think is right even if no one else is in agreement.

That I'm a very very fierce protector of those I love and when someone bad mouths a person that bends over backwards to help that backstabber I get angry and tell them a what for.

I've my lesson about trying to please everyone but myself.... Their problems aren't mine so I shouldn't keep trying to help everyone under the sun.. They made that choice themselves and need to learn that lesson about that choice on their own.. I shouldnt make it my problem.

I'm much stronger than I previously thought.. Now my ENTIRE family [thru major gossipers] knows it.

Don't tuck your thumb inside your fist when you punch.. just...don't.

Don't force yourself into doing something you're not comfortable with because you won't follow through with it..and if you do you may not be happy.. I recently re-wrote my knowledge test so keep my drivers license.. i hadn't really been driving in the last 5 years.. I hated it.. the very thought made me sick to my stomach... I took the test and past a month before my 27th birthday and now I'm driving more frequently than i ever did 5 years ago.. And I'm happy.. baby steps. [I prior to this i drove maybe 5 times in 5 years.. lol.. I driver almost every day.. it may only be 5 kms on back roads but still.. oh and I'm reversing and parking ..never did it before.. it's so much FUN! lol]

And lastly... stop saying, "It could be worse...." because every damned time you say it something worse happens! [my mother is so guilty of this!]