LESSONS LEARNED
In the past sixteen years of my life, I traveled quite a many different roads that a standard human being needs to pass through. In those roads, I’ve experienced what life has to offer- a mixture of any human emotion possible except for apathy. In one road I have experienced happiness, in the other one, sadness, and so on and so fur. But most importantly, in every end of those roads under any circumstance I have learned something useful which can help me be better to avoid repeating the same mistakes all over and over again.
All of us are designed by God to be imperfect. By being imperfect, we fall into mistakes, experience failure, and and taste the lemons of life. Conspicuously mistakes, failures, and frustrations can hurt an individual so badly that the soul is moved by the pain. Because of the unbearable hurting feeling that is felt, humans tend to develop a mature outlook of that certain circumstance to be able to avoid getting hurt that bad again. In short, we need to experience a mistake once to avoid future related -problems. As a popular quoatation says, “One is not enough but two is too much”. However, it depends upon the person whether he’d apply the lesson he’d learned from that mistake, it’s his choice.
1. BE HONEST- By being honest, I need not to worry about anything because I know that I am in the right track and nothing could possibly go wrong cuz I know exactly where I stand. There would be no complications cuz I show people what is real about me.
2. DON’T JUST SAY IT, MEAN IT- if I’m going to utter something that challenges me, I’ve got to make them real cuz I know that in time, it can get me real far. I realize I must not leave everything to chances cuz I know that I have the power to shape my destiny. Challenging myself and dropping all of my fears would be hard but these can make me be the person that I want to be. ”Some people are not destined to be succesful but they are so determined that victory is theirs”.
3. DON’T BE STUPID/ BE PRUDENT- sometimes, I act the opposite of what I’m thinking which makes me look well, stupid. I guess I have to be watchful of my actions, think first and weigh things before doing anything.
4. DON’T SHOW YOUR FEELINGS TO YOUR CRUSH- this might sound so lame but this learning helped me a lot on my second try in love…lol. Emotions were very deceiving that I misinterpreted the things that he was doing- wrong expectations can lead to depression. And besides, please… General Knowledge na that boys tend to take advantage on girls once they know that girls got feelings for them. And they also got a very advanced thinking once you’ve shown them even the slightest act of infatuation in the world. Believe me, cuz I’ve been there.
5. DON’T TRUST JUST ANYBODY - I realized that I must know first what kind of person whom I am going to confide in my secret. I might get shock the next day that the whole campus is talking about the latest news in town - my pathetic little secret.
6. DON’T TRUST BOYS IN A RUSH- Boys don’t usually mean what they say so I guess it is important to use the head than to let the heart be lulled by false flaterry. I, then, must have to be keen in observing a guy. In time I’ll know what kind of person he really is . Sometimes boys only make a fool out of girls so I must not be get carried away by them.
7. ALWAYS BE TRUE- I must show people who I really am cuz matter what I’ll do, there will always be people who will throw negative remarks about me. So I guess it’s better to be true always than pretend to be somebody I’m not. Either way I will still receive negative remarks from other people. I can’t please everybody, accept my imperfections cuz you also are imperfect- just like me.
8. SPEAK YOUR MIND- I am going to voice out what I’ve got to say. It’ the only way that other people would know the needs of other people that has got to be heard and be attended to.
There are still a lot of roads for me to pass through. As of now, these are the major lessons that I’ve learned throughout my 16 years journey in life.
