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When I was growing up, the friends I hung out with were trash talkers. The books I read was trash fiction.
I was stupid and followed what each of them said blindly. So I got all my life lessons from doing stupid stuff, and falling flat on my face.
My friends and I made plans like robbing a video store (genius, right?) to make more money. We even organized a reunion of old class fellows to get the hot chicks in our college to like us (they obviously didn’t).
Our other ‘genius’ plans were equally hare-brained. Thankfully we never got in serious trouble, since most of our plans died before the end of the night.
I can tell you though that in my short time on this blue dot, I’ve picked up a few things. These are what I’ll share with you today. It won’t be the ‘end-all’ for things you should know about life, but it will be enough to keep you from falling on your face.
How Did I Pick Up These Life Lessons?
By analyzing the things I screwed up in my own life. By observing other people falling on their face.
