What is the greatest lesson you've learned in life?

[twinkles]

dont move in with your children

 

[C'est Moi]

You can't change people.

 

[StarSong]

When it's time to say goodbye to a person, place, circumstance, attitude or possession, do so without great drama. Life is a series of adjustments and everything is in a constant state of flux. Resisting change is futile.

 

[CindyLouWho]

 

[Lord Elpus]

One thing I learned very early on from observing other kids in the homes, is that being loud doesn't automatically mean being right.

 

[Skyking]

NOTHING IN THIS WORLD LASTS FOREVER, NOTHING! SO...
Live in the present but always have a Plan B. It would seem God laughs at the plans of man. Roll with the punches. Those who make hard plans will find great disappointment in this life. Finally live a peaceful life. Don't chase money or fame. Instead pursue peace and grace. (I'm working on that last one)

 

[Bookworm11]

We're all in this together.

A lot of things that seem like major big deals in the moment turn out not to be in retrospect, and a lot of things that didn't seem that important at the time turn out to be significant in retrospect.

 

[Gary O']

OK, serious, nothing flip;

Skyking’s post is so freaking right.
And sparked a couple thoughts

I learned a lot about myself these last few years

When building something, anything, one learns much about oneself

It’s a test of complacency
A definition of perfection
A discovery of completion
A separation from pride, simple happiness or dissatisfaction taking it’s place
A discovery of endurance
Endurance to fight thru or for those things
And, where I now live, it’s never ending

Material things?
I love them
But now, now they’re more basic, more hands on, tangible

Someone, in another forum, posed the question; ‘What is your definition of a cabin?’

My reply;

For me?

It's more than even Kinkade could replicate.
It's warmer than the warmest of wood stoves.
It has more charisma than the grandest of orators,
more appeal than the most opulent edifice built.

Yet it's simpler than the simplest of abodes.

It turns a mason jar into a drinking glass,
a tuna can into an ash tray,
a wooden apple box into a cabinet,
a burlap bag into a slip cover,
favorite old clothes into attire of choice,
a stranger into an acquaintance,
an acquaintance into a friend,
a wife into a mistress,

a life....into living.


And for me,

the bonus

it's now home.

 

[gennie]

To accept and live with the cards life dealt me rather than always wanting someone else's hand

 

[Capt Lightning]

Gennie, that sounds like my mother. It was only towards the end of her life that regret crept in and she seemed to realise that things could have been a lot better. Don't sit around thinking "what if?" - do something about it.

 

[Mike]

I learned that everybody is an expert at something,
you just have to find out what it is.

This is how I looked at people who worked under me,
they were sent, I didn't choose them.

Mike.

 

[Tommy]

It turns a mason jar into a drinking glass,
a tuna can into an ash tray,
a wooden apple box into a cabinet,
a burlap bag into a slip cover,
favorite old clothes into attire of choice,
a stranger into an acquaintance,
an acquaintance into a friend,
a wife into a mistress,

Sounds exactly like our lives as young married college students. :bigwink:

 

[Linda]

Love people with all your heart while they are still around for you to love.

 

[asp3]

I think the biggest lesson I've learned is what peace and serenity are and how one can bring them into one's life. Unfortunately I was in my 30's before I gained this knowledge.

 

[Marie5656]

Eat healthy, exercise, die anyway.

 

[Pinky]

I think the biggest lesson I've learned is what peace and serenity are and how one can bring them into one's life. Unfortunately I was in my 30's before I gained this knowledge.

Sooner than I did I was in my 50's before I learned that not everyone means what they say.

 

[Knight]

Eat healthy, exercise, die anyway.

At least you will be a very fit looking corpse

 

[Gaer]

OK, serious, nothing flip;

Skyking’s post is so freaking right.
And sparked a couple thoughts

I learned a lot about myself these last few years

When building something, anything, one learns much about oneself

It’s a test of complacency
A definition of perfection
A discovery of completion
A separation from pride, simple happiness or dissatisfaction taking it’s place
A discovery of endurance
Endurance to fight thru or for those things
And, where I now live, it’s never ending

Material things?
I love them
But now, now they’re more basic, more hands on, tangible

Someone, in another forum, posed the question; ‘What is your definition of a cabin?’

My reply;

For me?

It's more than even Kinkade could replicate.
It's warmer than the warmest of wood stoves.
It has more charisma than the grandest of orators,
more appeal than the most opulent edifice built.

Yet it's simpler than the simplest of abodes.

It turns a mason jar into a drinking glass,
a tuna can into an ash tray,
a wooden apple box into a cabinet,
a burlap bag into a slip cover,
favorite old clothes into attire of choice,
a stranger into an acquaintance,
an acquaintance into a friend,
a wife into a mistress,

a life....into living.


And for me,

the bonus

it's now home.

Gary o: The cabin is beautiful! You're beautiful!

 

[Judycat]

Everyone has an opinion and no one cares as much as they say they do.

 

[Pecos]

Ah, a thread well worthy of being read from beginning to end.
Thanks for bring this one back to the forefront.
Looking at some of these early posters and their wisdom is humbling and confirms that I missed a lot by not finding this forum much earlier. It is surprising, and regrettable, how many of them have not appeared on the forum for a long time.

 

[hollydolly]

Never be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson not a life sentence.

 

[Gaer]

Each lifetime is an opportunity to grow closer to God through the development of the physiological senses, through the lifting of the quality of thought, and through finding the tenderness of love flowing softly from the heart of the soul.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Never be a prisoner of your past, it was just a lesson not a life sentence.

Sometimes your past defines who you are.

 

[hollydolly]

Sometimes your past defines who you are.

Only if you let it..

 

[Keesha]

That there’s a greater power that’s in all of us that we can completely trust in