Tag: Life lessons
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Six Bitter Lessons I Learned This Year That Made My Life Sweeter
#6. Your soul doesn’t resonate with everybody. And that’s okay. 2023 has been one of the bitter years of my life. I lost money. I lost friends. I lost hope. But, thank god, I’m still alive. But, you know what? The bitter lessons I learned this year have made my life sweeter. Let me share some…
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Four Cold Harsh Truths You Only Know if You’re a Street-Smart Person
#4. Some people tell you the truth to lie to you. Today, everything is virtual, but there is another reality beyond the screens. A world where betrayal and disappointment are the order of the day. A world where there is no delete button. A world where you can’t block a user when you don’t like what…
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Three Life Lessons That Saved Me From Myself When I Was My Worst Enemy
Old school advice for a brand new life. When your life is a mess, sooner or later, everything you have built collapses. And after the blow, you don’t want to build a fragile life again. You want something solid. Something built on rock. Something that will last and not break into pieces with the first storm.…
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Getting Out of Hell Isn’t Quick, but These 4 Hard Lessons Will Speed Up the Process
Learn from my pain. Getting out of hell is possible, but you must get the hell out of yourself first. Otherwise, you will always be accompanied by the whispering devil. That one that sooner or later will make you descend again to his kingdom of misery, addiction, and rottenness. I know it very well, as a…
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Three Life Lessons I Learned Today After Crying My Heart Out
#3. We don’t have to give our whole selves to people who only want to take a share. I just saw one of the most horrible things I have ever seen. A family walks into the coffee shop where I eat breakfast every morning with my mother, sit down at a large table, and order a…
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I Was Extremely Unhappy Until I Learned These 10 Things
#5. Happiness is like manure; if you don’t spread it, it smells terrible. One of the most significant revelations of my life was to understand that existential emptiness prevented me from being happy. I used to fill that void with drugs, junk food, alcohol, and nicotine. None of it worked. It only made the emptiness…
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7 Disturbing Lessons I Learned From Living in a State of Loneliness and Wild Desperation
The seven dangers of loneliness. My wild and free youth was only wild. When I was 20, I chose the life I thought I wanted, not the life I wanted. I lost myself looking for pretty girls, fast money, and all the pleasure you can buy with it. It wasn’t enough. It never is. But…
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Three Invaluable Lessons I Learned in My Forties That I Would Have Paid Millions to Know Early in Life
“Beauty is overrated.” There are things that money can’t buy. — But only when you have the money will you know what they are. One of them is happiness, understood as a state of peace of mind and not of euphoria, a form of serene joy, which in your twenties would seem boring to you, but when…
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The Disturbing Life Lesson I Learned From Reading the Bible That I Wish I Had Known at 20
Millennial wisdom for today’s life. Sometimes, it’s not about things making sense; it’s about the reason you make things. In my twenties, I did it all the wrong way. I remember those years as living constantly with my glasses fogged up. My gaze distorted everything I did: good things seemed terrible and boring, and bad things…
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10 Disturbing Lessons I Learned Giving Advice to Thousands of Readers for 8 Years
These are real lessons for real life. I had a nightmare tonight. I was a cashier at a supermarket, and my job was to teach customers how to use an electronic machine that would eventually replace me. The machine (instead of cashing out) was giving people advice. Then I time-traveled in the dream to 2027 and…