Hi i'm 20 years old, What are some life lessons that I can learn from from a 40 or 80 year old?

Answer 1

To live a life full of joy and tranquility, a life worth living both internally and externally, let mercy and kindness guide you. Look for the truth in all things. Shut out of your mind hatred, selfishness, revenge, hypocrisy and falsehood. Be generous both in spirit and with your possessions.
Know that each of your experiences contains a lesson. Your life on earth, in the place where you are and under the conditions you live, is exactly where you need to be to learn what you need from your experiences. Take responsibility for all you say, do and think. What happens to you is a result of your own thinking. Blame no one.
All your experiences contain a lesson. All events have a purpose, many of which are hidden. Ponder the purpose of an event, extract the lesson as it relates to you, store the lesson in your memory and move on. Aside from this, here are a few detriments to a happy and content life:
1. considering yourself to be better, smarter, richer or superior in any way to other people. You are not.
2. justifying what you do by lying
3. taking the life of another person for any reason
4. engaging in any sort of plot, scheme, agreement or thought; alone or with others, to gain some sort of advantage at the expense of some one else.
5. talking negatively about others. you do not possess the right to judge anyone. say well or say nothing. never enhance your position by testifying falsely against anyone, formally or informally.
6. centering your thoughts and actions to exclusively satisfy your ego without considering the negative effects they may have on others.

Finally,distinguish the profound difference between love and lust. Many of us confuse the two. Lust is self, ego centered and can never be satisfied. Love is soul centered, requires expression and is always satisfied.
I hope this helps you live a better life than I did.

Answer 2

Wow! Great question!

I'll admit to being "about 40," give or take. Too bad I have very little profound to say at the moment! I would say to trust your instincts and go for what you want. And while money is good, don't put up with too much garbage and lose your self-esteem in order to get it. Same with a significant other - even if you care for someone, you may have to walk away if they are not respecting you.

I'm not one of these ones who wishes he were younger. Having a job and a home is better than having a crazy college roommate and being broke.

Once you are about 25, every year starts to go really quickly. I feel like Christmas comes every couple of months! So be courageous and take opportunities. Be practical, but also don't look back later and say "I wish I had done that" when it's too late.

Finally, try to get along with your parents if they are around. Unfortunately, they can pass away before you know it and make sure you are on good terms if possible. Don't mean to be a downer, but you asked.

Hope this is something. Good luck!

Answer 3

The most important one..........be careful what you wish for, you might get it! Everything is not as it seems; if you're in college & having a rough time, just concentrate on passing the class -- unless going on to med school, no one cares about the letter grade, just as long as you have the credits; that you don't have to "settle" for anyone - that you have choices, and you will not be "all alone" unless you choose to be. That it is wise to save for a rainy day, but not at the expense of today. Don't put off your life until tomorrow. Make each day count. Great question - answers provided by a 21 year old with twice the experience & then some (meaning, I'm in my 40's). Good luck!

Answer 4

I am 41 and have a few:

1. Focus on yourself and your career in your 20's.

2. Don't get married until you are well into your late 20's early 30's. (gives you a chance to find out what you want in life and also to be indepedent)

3. Don't stay in a job more than 5 years. It seems after a while people take you for granted and don't appreciate your efforts as much. As you keep moving to other jobs, it gives you a opportunity to jump up your salary.

4. Enjoy spending time with your parents and elders, for they will not be around forever.

5. Exercise daily -- it is the key to a long life.

6. Don't put off traveling and seeing the world until you are retired, do it now while you are young and energetic.

7. Try not to hold grudges/resentment in life, life is too short to waste your time on the negative things! (I am still working on this one myself).

Answer 5

Date and love at least 2 women before you want to settle down, if you don't you won't know what type of woman you can be happy with. Learn to push and challenge yourself, it will show as a quality. If you go to college don't declare a major for a year or two, let your interests guide you and strengths help you succeed. Buy a cheap car, the nice ones will come eventually, you will thank yourself later.

Answer 6

You do not have predispozitions for aquairing lessons from that period even if someone tells you his all experience.
You need to have aged and advanced neural network in the brain to comprehend thoroughly when someone says things like children are everything in the life of parent.
Also you need waste everyday practice in social dealings with your environment, and more practical knowledge in interpersonal comunication.
And you must learn to control you anger, to hide yourself, to calm yourself, to do everything so that your familiy can get a better life.
When you can control yourself to listen your dumm boss that thinks he is the smartest in the world , and tries to run your every minute of you days work, and you look in the picture of your child, and just say yes boss,.
Those are things not learned by other people lessons, those are your ingrained experiences, for them you must bleed those 40 to 80 years, and even if you tell that every day to the younger people
nothing will change, because it is just gone thru their ears, and there is nothing left in their mind.
So live fully your 20th year, do nothing stupid, stay alive, live another year. and day by day with Gods will you will live your 80 years.

Answer 7

Enjoy the meaningless sex now, because as you get older you will realize that looks only matter for about the first 6months. I am a pretty woman and have dated goodlookers and not so goodlookers. After it's all said and done, the personality is what will make you fall in love.
P.S. You still have to be attracticted to the person

Answer 8

Start saving for your retirement NOW! you can change your family tree if you do. Social Security will probably not be around when you retire young man.

Answer 9

How to save and invest your money wisely and securely....Maybe how to keep a marriage sound or what they wish they did better during that time?Good Luck

Answer 10

Don't go through life with a bad attitude, always take it as it comes.