| LIFE LESSONS FROM A 68 YEAR OLD. November 30, 2023 1. Don’t exercise to be strong. Exercise to be healthy. 2. The best place for ideas is where ever works best for you. 3. What she said. And carry and pencil and pocket-sized notebook everywhere. People say I have a great memory. It's a hack, not a gift. 4. In relationships, the most important thing is love. If you have it, no problem is too big. Without it, who cares? 5. If sex ever becomes hard work, become a hooker. You might as well get paid. 6. Consider a pet before having anything else. 7. At any age, if you take care of yourself, you will not experience irrational weight gain. Nothing happens out of nowhere for no reason at all. There are no rewards or punishments, only consequences. 8. Sometimes in life, the best thing to do, is to <insert whatever works for you>. 9. In a long term relationship, be either "all in" or not. If you're "all in", be "all in". 10. Learn the difference between issues and details. Issues matter. Details don't. 11. Allow aquaintances to come and go. True friendships are so rare and precious, never lose them. (I learned that the hard way too many times.) 12. Give every "no show" one opportunity to apologize. After that, ghost them. No matter what happens, it will be for the best. 13. Never allow anyone to "make you feel" anything. You must always decide how to feel yourself. 14. If you're too stupid to use a condom, you get what you deserve. Unfortunately sometimes your child gets what you deserve too. 15. The more you know, the lower the percentage of everything there is to know will be known by you. 16. Don't pick the phone up in the first place. (There, you just eliminated the need for 4,528 "put your phone down" rules. 17. See #14, #15, and #16. 18. See #16. See how easy. 19. Apply #16 to social media. Except Hacker News. 20. If you're older than the author of a listicle, you have automatic permission to build upon it with your own listicle. OP, thanks for the nice list, and the opportunity to play along with good clean fun. :-) |
Number 12 is spot on, people wasting your time should be eliminated very quickly. Money can be gained again, time is lost forever.