What is the most important lesson that you have learned in life?

Answer 1

Oh my goodness what a loaded question, I've learned so many lessons in life.
1. Pick your battles with kids, and be consistent, say what you mean and mean what you say.

2. Don't let anyone know how much money you make and never have a joint acct unless you keep get away money stashed away in a secret acct.

3. you can't love anyone until you learn to love yourself

4. Don't put your kids or any loved one down in front of others lest you want them to jump on the bandwagon

5. When filing joint taxes insist on seeing the paper work in case your husband did what mine did for years and claimed we ended up owing, instead he was forging my signature on the check and cashing in without my knowledge.

6. Single parents don't live with a man until your kids are out of the house, chances are he'll hate the teenage phase, especially if he never had kids of his own.

7. Take care of your parents when they get old

8 Seek therapy and counseling if you KNOW you need it, don't be ashamed.

9. Say your sorry if you know your wrong.

10. Don't take yourself too seriously, learn to laugh at your shortcomings as well as you do others.

11. If your thin skinned you won't make friends, lighten up.

12 Don't trust strangers and watch your so called friends as well.

13. Don't be running around after dark alone (females).

14. Not all flashing lights are real policemen, pull over to a lighted, busy place, even then crack the window just enough to
speak, call police on cell phone if you suspect he's not a real cop.

Answer 2

Keep learning and never stop to find out which was the best learning - the moment one decides that the most important thing has been learned, the process of learning would slow down. In any case, rating of lessons learnt is unwarranted.

Answer 3

That is a big question. Life has taught me so many important lessons. Maybe the most important one is that time is limited and I should use each moment wisely.

Answer 4

Not everyone is honest. People lie for their own personal gain and you cant really trust everyone and everything at face value.
My parents were probably the hardest working, most honest, upright individuals I have ever known. They were a team together and raised me and all of my brothers and sisters to be honest and hard working, to tell the truth and pray often.
I learned the hard way not everyone is honest and it was a shocker. I learned to not trust. It used to be easy, its not anymore. I wish I was naive. It was a nice feeling to be ignorant, I dont have that anymore.

Answer 5

The most important things in life aren't things. In the end the most important thing is love.

Answer 6

All lessons are relevant, there is no one lesson that one can learn and still lead a good life.

Answer 7

Never tell a lie... no exceptions. There are creative ways to hide the truth of something. such as a surprise or a gift. If you have done something wrong and need to hide it, just keep your mouth shut. When you lie you are in fact telling the person you are lieing to that you care little of what they think of you. If you don't have your integrity, you don't have anything at all

Answer 8

Patience

Answer 9

Take things a day at a time.

This has helped me not stress out about the future, but instead focus on today.

Answer 10

That's a hard question.

I've made many mistakes in my life. Several of them BIG BIG mistakes. But, even they, have led me to who I am. Therefore, I regret none of them. If I could change the past, I wouldnt change a single event. As if I am anything at all now, I AM FREE. Free-er than most, infact. As an Atheist, I have faced my worst fears already. Growing up Catholic and always feeling that it didnt add up. They day I finally acknowledged that there was nothing to fear from the shedding of a false belief, the TRUTH truely set me free. I was liberated from the fear of disapproval of a non-existent God. Freed from the fear of punishment from an unseen ubiquitous judgemental vengeful mythical sentinel. Free of fear of being punished by a creator for living upto the design he gave me. Free of the fear of a hell of boogie-men, demons, devils and damnation. Free of fear of the "End of the World", WWIII, Armageddon and the like. Free from the belief in good and evil, accepting life and its events as simply being what they are, be it pleasant or not from my, often circumstantial, perspective. "Why nothing's either right or wrong but thinking makes it so."--Rosenkrantz from Shakespear's Hamlet. Free to be the person and creature who remains. Free to be me, as the tiger is free to kill the doe or tenderly care for her cubs, as the spider is free to suck the life from the fly and spin its web without care of tomorrow or an eternal damnation for the justice of the fly. Free from guilt for being who and what I am--imperfect. Free to be who ever I will choose--to live my life however I choose. Free to live today for today and to leave tomorrow for the care of itself. I can be a saint, a sinner, a philanthropist, a harlot, hedonistic, nymphomanical, prudish, selfless, pragmatic, angry, patient, kind, mean, understanding, judgemental . . . . I can be all or nothing. I can be Human, still myself . . . and still love and like who I am regardless of the autobiography. As Jean-Jaques Rousseau or St. Augustine, I may someday write something of the dark days of my life (should they have a definitive end), but unlike their "Confessions", mine will be as much as celebration of my ill deemed deeds as those thought well of.