The Best Teacher in Your Life
Call it life experience or what you will, most of us have learned “stuff” going through life that we wished we knew when we were youngins. Here are ten of my life lessons. You can make your own list but be prepared to change it every few years. As my old Afro-American friend used to tell me, “Life is a growin thing.”
Don’t take yourself so seriously.
No matter how important you are or think you are, you do not hold the universe on your shoulders. When you are gone, this old world will keep on turning. Trust me.
Always try to see the big picture.
It’s so easy to get yourself all uptight about the thousands of little incidents in our lives that we forget the “biggies.” Health, Family, Friends. If you have these, it won’t really matter much if your name was inadvertently left off the list of contributors to the Boys and Girls Club of East Oshkosh.
Don’t waste time with unpleasant people.
Most people are okay. But there are a few whom you will never please. They are determined to be unhappy and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Avoid them. Life is much too short.
Never hold a grudge.
It ends up hurting you much more than the person who wronged you. Holding grudges and seeking revenge will poison your life quicker than most anything. You don’t need it.
Don’t live your life in the “Empire of me.”
“One” is a lonely number. One of the major paradoxes of life is that the more you concentrate your energies and attention on the big # 1, the more miserable you become. Get off your bottom and do something to help others. Remember the prayer of St.Francis. “It is in loving that we are loved; it is in giving that we receive.”
Enjoy the moment.
Some folks are always making plans for the future. They talk endlessly about “when the kids are grown, when we have more money, when we retire. You want to shake them and remind them that the only time we really have is now. When we lie on our deathbed, it won’t be the mistakes we made that we regret, it will be the trips never taken, the songs never sung.
Have at least one close friend
Whether it’s a spouse or someone else, it’s important to have at least one person in your life with whom you can be completely yourself.
Make sure you always have younger people around you
The older we get the more we need the vigor and energy of the young. Kids and young folks have a way of keeping us youthful
Have respect for all living things.
Respect for all life starts with yourself and extends out to all human beings and then to all living things. Respect for others helps you to tolerate different points of view and enables you to see some element of good in everyone.
Believe in something or someone greater than yourself
Whether you find your “God” in the redwoods or in timeless poetry or in the First Methodist Church, it’s important to acknowledge a spirit that brought us into being out of love and continues to grace our lives.
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