Reddit user u/G_man252 asked people to share their own life lessons “learned the hard way ,” and the answers, though varied, all touched on something useful that everyone can probably relate to. Especially those of us who have had the blessing of living long enough to gain a lot of hard-won knowledge.
Below are 17 of the best lessons that all of us either have learned, are trying to learn or will learn soon enough. Reading them isn’t necessarily the same as experiencing them, but there is still some comfort in knowing they are all part of what it means to be human.
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The best answers in the world have no value whatsoever if they belong to the wrong questions.
All of us have goals and desires, and to move towards them we look for answers. We fail to realize that the answers are not as important as the questions we can ask.
"What is like to be a human?" is the question that consciousness answers. It represents our experience of us & the world around us:
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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