Life Lessons - Help!
Yeah? Then help me out.
The Brother graduates from high school next spring, and I’d like to impart some knowledge on the youngest babe of the Arnold clan. Also, I’m itching to do another typography project.
My hope is to create a poster full of life lessons that I’ve learned since high school. A rough list follows:
- Be thankful every day.
- Credit card companies are evil.
- If you have a question, always ask.
- A bad situation will probably be really funny tomorrow. Sometimes it might take a week.
- The ingredients for any healthy relationship are trust, communication and respect.
- The Steelers are the best football team. EVER.
- Mistakes are important and okay. Learn from them.
- First impressions are important, but rarely accurate. Give it another round.
- Bad things do happen to good people.
- You are who you surround yourself with.
- Things could almost always be worse.
- Attitude is everything.
- Every situation offers a lesson. Try to find it, good or bad.
- Be tenacious.
- You can agree to disagree.
- Learn to let it go.
- Your first instinct is probably the right one.
- Learn from the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future.
- Do what you love.
Nothing can replace life experience, of course, but a cheat sheet can’t hurt.
Is there anything you wish you’d known at 18? Any obstacles you would have liked to have been warned about? Deep, silly — let’s hear it!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:05 am
This is long, but it is the advice I give EVERYONE because I have learned it to be as true as anything is true:
“Every problem you’re ever going to have is going to lead you to exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
June 18th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I wish i had known that the freshman 15 isn’t as bad as the first job 20.
i wish i had known to make exercise a routine before i got used to making excuses for it.
always always always hit SAVE when you’re working on college reports. and back them up on another disc if you can. it’s not fun to re-write your entire thesis at 3am the night before it is due.
enjoy partying at college, but buckle down and study too.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
* Conflict is only as hurtful as you let it be.
* You have a choice.
* There are more hours in a Monday than there are in a Saturday.
* If you procrastinate enough, sometimes people will forget that they ever asked you to do that thing you really didn’t think needed to be done.
* Sisters are really freakin’ smart. Listen to them.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
From The Great Gatsby: “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone […] just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Also: stand up for what you believe in, but be open to the beliefs of others.
And last but not least, one from my mom: ‘open up your mouth and say hi, for goodness sakes!’ I’m relatively shy, and I do wish I would have made friends with a few more people from my college years.