I welcome you to my blog. One thing about living is that you come to realize that life is a continuous circle of learning, which I believe brought about the saying "learning never ends." Just when you feel you know it all and can handle anything, life throws another that might even push you off balance, and you are left trying to figure it out. Continuously we keep learning, whether ready or not, and it is left for us to pick the lesson from everything life throws at us because there will definitely be a need for it in the future.
Many life lessons are not for you to always apply immediately; just hold onto them, as you do not know when they will come in handy. Every life experience is a lesson; it's left for you to pick the lesson and apply it in a way that favors you, and if you fail to pick the lesson from an experience, then be ready to suffer the same thing again. Every life's lesson helps you to avoid suffering the same thing twice. Someone betrays your trust, and because they apologized with tears in their eyes, you forgive them and trust them even more. Then be ready to suffer the same thing again until you learn not to trust them completely again.
Life will teach you more lessons than any lecturer would because a lecture has a specific number of years to pass their message while life has all the time it needs to pass its message. Over the years I have been opportune to learn a lot of things, and the lessons never stop coming; you just have to keep taking notes and learning nonstop. There are so many lessons I have learned from life, and they have all, in a way, affected my life both positively and negatively. I have learned that no one owes me anything, and no one is coming to save me, and I have to work and get whatever I want; if not, I will wait and wait forever. But one lesson that kind of relates to this kind of stands out: the one lesson I take seriously and hold onto.
That one lesson life has taught me is to lower my expectations, as that way the disappointments won't hurt; disappointments hurt more when you have your hopes high. A friend was complaining how an uncle promised her money, and she already made a plan on how she would spend the money once she received it, only for her to be disappointed by this uncle who stopped taking calls and responding to her chats. She almost cried her eyes out that period, but if only she had raised her hopes so high to the point of making a plan on how to spend the money, she would not have been so disappointed to the point of crying to express how badly the disappointment hurt her. So lower your expectations, and that way when disappointments come, it hurts less and doesn't put you down or make you moody for too long.
