- Grades are not as important as your personal skill
- Career and job are not the same things
- People aren’t always going to be the same
- Your parents are growing older along with you
- They don’t have all the answers
- They don’t have to have all the answers
- Grownups don’t have summer and mid-term vacations
- A lot of hard work goes behind providing the basic home
- Power cuts are not as fun when you don’t have your parents sitting over you
- Soon you will have to plan and set time aside for your family
- Those cool grownups you wish you could be more like actually wish that they could be like you
- That over-friendly neighbor uncle has more in mind than just friendship
- If your parents deny you something, don’t ask for it again, ever, they are doing that for a reason
- Sleep is a valuable commodity
- Don’t quarrel with your siblings so much, they are human too
- Cherish each moment with your siblings, time makes you go your separate ways
- The only math you will most ever need is basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Fat girls and elephants don’t forget
- Fat girls sometimes become beautiful when older and vise versa
- Grandparents are usually the first to go away forever, spend as much time you can with them as possible
- There is a time for relationships, and it is not now
- Remember people, not the past
- Peer pressure gets easier to handle
- Always stand up for what you believe in
- Never compromise on your values to please others, they will respect you more for that
- Don’t judge yourself by what you see in the mirror
- Each time your father talks about his childhood, listen. He misses it as much as you will miss yours
- Not everyone deserves a second chance
- It is important that you forgive and move on
- Forgive but don’t forget
Great post! Love every item on your list. Funny how even when we were told some of these things growing up, sometimes you still have to learn it the hard way before you really understand. I suppose that’s part of growing up.
Thanks! Yes I remember my father sitting me down many a time with some of these lessons and I always assumed that ‘it wouldn’t happen to me’. Oh the days of yore!