You learned the hard way

[Jazzy]

Is there a big life lesson you learned the hard way?

If yes, what was the lesson?

 

[Stravinsk]

I can think of several, but I'll wait for @Jazzy to provide the readers here with some of her own.

 

[Jazzy]

Several but I'll spare you a very long list and post up only a few:

1. It's okay to need time alone, no one is entitled to your personal time.
2. As a kid, that delicious strawberry smelling soap does not taste like delicious strawberries.
3. Sometimes you can try too hard to make something work when letting go would have saved everyone a lot of heart and headache.

 

[Lamb]

Sometimes friends will stab you in the back and there is nothing you could have done to prevent it.

What's important to you, isn't always going to be important to your friends and family. Expectations can be disappointing.

 

[Stravinsk]

"Learned the hard way" implies some sort of punishment/consequence or otherwise negative experience. So here are few lessons learned:

I would class being lied to and manipulated a great deal of my life something that fits that description. The lesson learned: Consider the source of the media one consumes, and who or what entities own it, or produce it, or sponsor it. For example I pretty much shun all corporate media, television or internet. I would never let myself get hypnotized by it again. I say "pretty much" because on occasion I do watch it, just to pick apart it's lies or to see how it's manipulating the masses.

People are amazed when I say I haven't owned a working television in over 10 years. The same people are eating McDonalds, getting covid jabs and boosters, worshiping "Israel" , think commercial air-buses can fly cruising altitude speeds at just a few thousand feet, and perhaps wondering what gender they really are.

- Do not take an excess of motion sickness pills in order to get a unique acid-like trip. When I was young and dumb I tried this and I'm relatively positive that at any older/unhealthier age I would likely have died. My heart was beating that fast. They weren't lying about the acid-like trip though. It was not worth it at all.

- When I was young and dumb I did a fair share of drugs, including injecting Heroin on several occasions. On one such occasion I did so while hungry on a near empty stomach, and did too much. It was a horrid experience that left me with excruciating, slam my head into the wall like pounding headaches and lethargic.

-Don't be friends with females (or males) that express sexual interest when you aren't open to it with them. I made this mistake with one female who was a friend only.

 

[NewCreation435]

Not to quit a job until I had another one lined up to take its place