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Nikolette -> RE: What have you found out the hard way? (4/26/2007 8:24:45 AM)
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1: If there is one thing I've learned its that people will do things that you believe is out of character for them. Things you don't even have the creativity to imagine, things you will never understand.
2: You never ~really~ know someone until you live with them everyday- and even then you just get a perspective that they prefer to show you.
3: When people tell you something over and over and over again its not necessarily because its true. More likely its because they either want you to believe its true, or they want it to be true themselves.
4: Watch what people DO not what they SAY.
5: Never make someone a priority when they are making you an option
6: Don't assume a psycho will act like a normal human being.
7: Life gets richer by experience.
8: Do the things you feel you want to do rather than putting them off- especially when it comes to other people. You never EVER know when the light of their life might be snuffed out suddenly.
9: No one deserves to be abused. No one, for any reason. No one deserves to suffer.
10: Don't trust food an old possibly senile person gives you unless you're sure on your own its okay.
11: Its better to spend the time, effort and possibly money to make sure you are making the right choice in a given moment rather than feeling overwhelmed, rushing things, and hoping- irrationally- it some how will all work out for the better in the end on its own.
12: If I lose every worldly possession, its not a major deal. Possessions are just items drifting in the wind.
13: Follow that gut feeling you have about EVERYTHING. We call it a "hunch" but really- its reasoning working silently in the back of our mind. Its better to be safe than sorry.
14: Its important to love yourself before looking for the love of another.
15: You are not born knowing certain aspects of life. These skills you must learn on your own- parents might not teach them, friends might not know them, experience dictates you must learn them the hard way, therapy can always help.
16: Not everyone is operating at the same level of consciousness. Consciousness is on a flexible scale rather than absolutes- more often than not people are less conscious than more. This is reflected in the irrationalities they spout of too the world, the way they judge their life and you, their integrity, and their ability to correctly reason. Don't assume people are living consciously just because you want them to.
17: Just because you have told someone something, doesn't mean they heard it.
18: Its not your job to judge people.
19: Life, truth, reality, can be subjective.
20: The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is an attribute of the strong- Gandhi
and much much much more...
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