Friday, November 4, 2022

Important Truths​ To Learn About Life (read repeatedly)

Important Truths To Learn About Life

Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are things I've concluded about life, the world, and its inhabitants :

1. You CAN change other people, but not everyone wants to change
2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.
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    
11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it
14. Managing one's wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn
15. Nobody has it all figured out
20. People embellish, as a rule
24. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least
29. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of themselves to the world is as rare as diamonds
34. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
39. Self-examination is the only path out
44. People cause suffering when they are suffering themselves. Alleviating their suffering will help them not hurt others
45. High quality is worth more any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences
47. If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship
50. Addiction is present in every person in various forms, but usually we call it something else
53. Everyone thinks THEY ARE above average
54. The urge to punish others has much more to do with venting frustration than correcting behavior.
57. There is nothing worse than having no friends.
59. Try as we might to be otherwise, we are all hypocrites.
60. Life is NOT fair, get over it bitch: Justice is a human invention which is in reality rarely achievable, but many will not hesitate to destroy lives demanding it.
64. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.
70. Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.
76. Sometimes you have to remove certain people from your life, even if they're family.
78. There is no point finishing a relationship you aren't enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and end it and move on
81. Life is a solo trip, but you'll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren't.
83. The fewer possessions you have the less things own you
87. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things are
Everything is temporary, but change is forever
88. People treat you the way you LET THEM treat you 
89. Happiness is a choice and requires hard work, or letting go of unhappiness
90. Beneath anger is usually fear, so dont be so scared of everything
91. Things dont matter that much, but might be worth lots of money after 50 years
92. A life time is not very long, unless you're bored
93. you are not that important. dont get too big of yourself. you are not better than everyone. even if you were, who cares?
94. Buying things will not make you happy. Owning things will not make you happy