6 life lessons you wish someone had told you earlier

Such an aha moment where you suddenly see everything very clearly. Where you suddenly think: ha madam life, you could have told me earlier that it all works this way! Call it insights, call it life lessons, call it growing older. These are the lessons I wish I had learned earlier.

During the shittiest periods in our lives, we are tested the most. And when they are over, you know how strong you were.
Admittedly: this is a very unsatisfying thing to read at the moment when you are in the middle of a storm. But think back to a shitty period. What happened afterwards? You felt strengthened. When everything is just a bit too chill in life, we are tested, after which we always change.

Sometimes good people make bad choices…
…which can feel extremely disappointing, but this doesn’t make them ‘bad’ right away. It makes them human.

It's about relationships
Not about money or power or influence. It is about how you feel with others and especially: the feeling that you give them. So put the people you love first. Not your phone. Not the television. Not your hobby. Treat them as if they are everything to you. Because they are.

Fear is an illusion
Okay, usually. Not that you are being attacked by a creep in your living room at night, but generally? What we are afraid of usually doesn’t happen. The fear itself may therefore be our greatest fear. And thus a hindrance. Fuck fears.

The best advice to others often comes from your own stupidity
And I thought you become wiser as you get older. HAHA. No way. There are just fewer stupid things that you have never done, how ‘bout that?

Friendship requires maintenance
In the top 5 of things that dying people regret is: letting friendships fade. Therefore, treat your beloved friends as pure gold: it is worth it.

P.S.: You have to clean the stairs from the top down. I just figured that out, that’s my lesson of the day. Joe.