Tag: Life lessons
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Three Disturbing Lessons You Only Know if You’re a Streetwise Person
#2. Not all your friends are good friends. In the University of Life, there are no exams that can certify your level. Lessons are learned the hard way. The best teacher is usually a strict guy named Mr. Pain, and repeating a course usually costs much more than money. Here are three of the lessons you…
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10 Sad Lessons to Live a Happy Life
#3. No one will remember you 150 years from now. Growing up happens over time; maturing only happens if you take advantage of it. The more you mature, the happier you are because you can stop giving too much importance to things you can’t change or that don’t matter. To mature, you need to get up…
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Three Disturbing Moments That Change My Life Forever
(And the bitter lessons I learn from them). If hell were a cocktail bar, I’d be the bartender. I worked in a place that looked just like the bar in the movie From Dusk Till Daw (but without vampires 🙂 for over five years. In that bar, But it wasn’t there that I had the scariest experiences of…
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Three Cold, Hard Truths You Discover When Your Life Has More Past Than Future
#3. Your best friend is someone who does not yet exist. I am 42 years old, and today I have lived 15 384 days (I have checked it in an app 🙂 In my country, men live an average of 79 years. Therefore, I have 14 289 days left to live. F*ck! It’s scary when you realize…
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The Bitter Lesson I Learned When I Secretly Hated Myself
Many times, things are not what they seem. I have a beggar friend, and I help him financially every week with a small amount of money. As a result of our peculiar friendship, he has been telling me details of his life. He married very young and had two children with his wife. The wife became…
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Three Subtle Things That Happen When Your World is About to Change for the Worst
#3. You stop being King Midas and become King Poop. Sometimes, life has a dark and dismal sense of humor. And it seems like overnight, everything falls apart around you. But it doesn’t. Life warns you that something will change long in advance and many times. What happens is that when luck smiles on you, you…
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Three Cold Hard Truths You Learn When You Are Alone and Hopeless
When your girlfriend leaves you for someone else, and your friends turn their backs on you, you learn a lot. After seven years of living together, my girlfriend broke up with me via phone call. The last time I saw her was in a photo on Facebook giving a snog to a redhead dressed in a…
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The Most Disturbing Life Lesson You Learn When Your Life Doesn’t Match the Potential You Feel Inside of You
Save time learning from my mistakes. Sometimes, you feel so bad but can’t put words to it. All seems to be going well: you have the job, the house, the bros, stability, and a social environment that appreciates you, but all feels a little meh! Do you know why that lack of interest and enthusiasm?…
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17 Things That Happen When You Feel Alone and Desperate and Nobody Talk About.
#1. You don’t realize how lonely and desperate you are until it’s too late. Sometimes, something changes that changes everything. And you see how your reality dissolves like a soap bar under a hot shower. And you have to watch it go down the drain. And it hurts. I have experienced it firsthand. I still remember…
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The Most Disturbing Spiritual Lesson the Universe Taught Me in the Last Decade
The Lesson of the Mirror. Christmas is a dark time of the year when everyone insists that I do things I don’t want to do. The same thing happens to me on Valentine’s Day when everyone says, “Get on Tinder and give Cupid a chance.” And I don’t feel like playing the Russian roulette of love…