As every year passes, we tend to come up with promises to ourselves on what we should and should not do as the new year comes in. I do not disagree with the idea, but I would prefer that instead of worrying about tomorrow, let us look back at the past and learn from it. That way, we become wiser for the coming year, as we learn (and re-learn) many things about ourselves and about life as we know it.
For 2010, the many things I (re)learned about life are more or less summarized in these 30 items:
For 2010, the many things I (re)learned about life are more or less summarized in these 30 items:
- It is better to be disliked by someone but have an opinion than to be liked by everyone but have no opinion at all.
- When someone doesn't want to talk to you, it should be pretty obvious.
- Text quotes are now considered old school.
- Watch your back; don't expect someone else to do it.
- A man can't live on bread alone. It should be a complete breakfast.
- Highschool friends make you feel old. College friends make you feel your age. Post-graduate friends make you feel like a kid again.
- When looking for a job, it's not all about the money. It's about the benefits.
- Be kind to waitresses and salesladies. They may be the only ones willing to talk to you when no one else will.
- When someone says you're fat, most often than not, they're not lying.
- Always take time to get a massage.
- The weakness of every geek and nerd is getting noticed by a woman.
- Take the leap of faith if you are sure there's a pillow waiting for you on the ground.
- Murphy's Law. Period.
- No matter how high your educational attainment is, you will always fall for good marketing.
- As you get older, your parties end earlier (and eventually start earlier).
- Nothing can prepare you more for the future than a large savings account.
- Family and friends make memories. Your brain just stores them. Apparently, they hold the passwords for them as well.
- DO NOT WORK for small family corporations. Ignore this if you like kissing ass.
- When you are an object attached to another through an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis, you are screwed.
- A bird on the hand is better than two on the roof. But that's why they invented bird cages: so you could get more birds.
- Succubi do exist.
- Rank and File is not a status. It's an ideology. A very cheap ideology.
- When you're young, you think you could do anything you want when you get older. That idea gets reversed when you get older.
- Everyone deserves respect, no matter what their job, status, educational attainment, history, race, and sex are.
- Bullsh*t is not edible. However, its products are.
- Don't look back in anger. In fact, just don't look back.
- Always read the instructions. You can avoid so many problems in the future if you do.
- There is no such thing as too many shoes. The same can be said about games.
- If you smell something fishy, expect to find some fish lying about.
- In today's fashion, the more girly a guy looks, the more manly he is (seriously, skin-tight jeans and skimpy shirts on a guy?!)
And there you have it. As another year comes in, who knows what experiences I will be going through. However, if there is one practice that we humans can do over and over again, it is to wish that the coming year would be better than the last.
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P.S. Want to share your learning for the past year? I'd like to hear them too!
Happy New Year to the Doodle Readers!
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P.S. Want to share your learning for the past year? I'd like to hear them too!