Category: Life lessons I learnt from strangers (friends)
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#lesson 10:The way you live your day,is the way you live your life
I was done with living the ‘ALONE’ life, not being cool enough to ‘FIT IN’ and being ‘SOMEONE WHO WAS DUMPED’ but I was not done feeling sorry for myself. Eight months were more than enough of ‘self’ time to discover what kind of person I was but then instead of figuring things out I…
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#lesson number 9:If you keep trying you can turn your dream into your goal
”What are your dreams?” ”I have a lot of dreams!!!!!!!!!!sometimes I feel like I am a 8 year old because my list of dreams are infinite.” ”So,what is one of your biggest dreams?” ”I want to be a writer” ”That’s your biggest dream?” ”Well kinda one of my dreams..” ”You write regularly?” ”Yeah since the…
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#Lesson 8 :Never feel guilty after failing
At 6th grade the best way to be a ”Better” human being and to be be ”Good” all I thought I had to do was hand in my homework and get good grades.To follow the instructions the teacher gave me and to have a smile on report card days. Things changed after 6th Grade. I…
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#Lesson 7: Mothers know it all
” I don’t get it why are women so disrespectful to their husbands these days?” ”But mamu they are just comfortable with each other,they were friends before so you know its okay its not disrespect” ”How is that a logical explanation? Your father is my best friend,I am most comfortable when he is around but…
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#Lesson 6:The world does not need to understand.(and it will not either)
My whole life had fallen apart,I left home to be with the one person who promised to never give up on me and he did exactly opposite of all that he promised….He left me without the truth ..making me feel I did not deserve it.I was looking forward for a happily ever after,I ended up…
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#LESSON 5: People are not their past
‘‘Usually when people hear my story,they judge me and they never talk to me again..Thankyou man You didn’t run away”,she said with her sad ,beautiful ,big eyes with flattering eyelashes.. Even though she was 4’8 she reached heights and stood up for herself,that is what made me respect her(btw respect is more than only accept).Her…
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#Lesson 3: Language is overrated and so are words
I have a T H I N G for kids,there is just something about kids in capital letter that I can’t ignore.I find them adorable and easy to be around.but then this time it was going to be different.I did not know how to speak the language,I was nervous.This was the first time I officially…
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#Lesson 2:Grades do not measure intelligence
”I mean is this the most important thing in your life?” I did not know how to respond to what he asked but I was SURE it was a BIG NO!!!!!!!!! with a lot of exclamation signs but my face was looking like a wall showing no emotion.Grades in Statistics II were not going to be important five…
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#Lesson 1:Just because people look happy does not mean they have never been sad
Somewhere Early 2013 (one of those classrooms in Assumption University) “I did not see him die so for me he is still alive.” Half the class was silent because they did not understand and the other half was silent because they did not know how to react.I was silent because I knew my words would…