5 Life Lessons We Often Learn Too Late
Life is a process of continuous learning and if we stop, believing that nothing else can
amaze us and the desire to learn new things abandons us, we begin to slowly die. However,
there are lessons we should learn as soon as possible to avoid regretting everything we
wanted to do and didn’t later on. In this video, we will see 5 life lessons that it
would be useful to learn from childhood, but that we often only learn later in life.
1. Everything is temporary - nothing lasts forever
Whilst it’s difficult to digest, the truth is that everything we have won’t last forever,
not even us. Within a century, both myself and you watching this video will all be dead, buried,
and in many cases forgotten. Our beloved dog will not be with us forever, and most of the
objects we have will only be with us for a few years, and our relationships will eventually end,
not necessarily our choice or theirs. Ok, maybe it isn’t the most positive
way to start a video, but unfortunately it’s the harsh reality, and we have to accept it.
Our life is now. We spend too much time complaining about the past and worrying
about the future, while the present escapes us. We live in two times that don’t exist, whilst we let
everything we truly have, the “here and now”, vanish. The sooner we learn this lesson, the
sooner we’ll be able to make the most of our time. In fact, by learning to enjoy the here and now and
paying more attention to what’s around us and those close to us, we’ll avoid future regret.
When we’re aware that we’re making the most of our time, we’ll have no reason to regret.
2. Today’s sacrifices will pay off tomorrow.
At first glance, this point may seem to go against what we’ve previously said,
but let’s not confuse these two things. The fact that we have to live life to the
fullest every day because life isn’t permanent doesn’t mean that we can’t make sacrifices
today to build a better future. Remember that today is what we called “tomorrow” yesterday.
The fundamental thing is using our time to the fullest, avoiding futile activities and using
the 24 hours we have every day to build something important for the future, or to do something that
gives us extreme joy in the present. When you’re 90 years old and you look back at your past life,
do you think you’ll most joyfully remember your days spent in the living room alone watching TV,
or those spent with friends and loved ones, or why not also alone doing more
adventurous and exciting activities? The problem is that when we’re young,
we want everything immediately. We focus on goals and if we don’t immediately achieve them,
we become disappointed and give up. This is largely due to incorrect messages that
society gives us, because we expect our ambitions to materialize as if by magic.
Remember that it’s often not the objective, but the journey that counts. So sometimes the
goals that we reach aren’t important, rather the person that we became whilst trying to reach them.
3. Life is unfair. Accept it. Your colleague
unfairly got the promotion you deserved or the girl of your dreams ignores you to go out with
the playground bully that doesn’t know how to count up to 10 even though your mum told you
every morning how beautiful and intelligent you are? Remember that nothing is owed to you and
you see life through your eyes, so your opinions will always be influenced in some way by that.
There’s no use complaining and spending time feeling sorry for yourself. Just
because you think you deserve something doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Learn and try
again. If you’re persistent and determined, sooner or later you’ll get what you want.
4. Don’t make mountains out of molehills Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can tell the
greatness of a man by what makes him angry”. Do you know people who get really pissed off
and go on for hours complaining, when it would instead do them better to
use their own time for more serious things? However, we humans have an innate talent for
tragedy. But every time we start our catastrophic thought, we only manage to hurt ourselves. In
fact, it’s likely that on more than one occasion, when you look at the past, you’ve realised that
you’re worried for no reason or that you reacted in an exaggerated way, always fearing the worst.
Life usually takes care of putting everything right and teaches us to adopt a more realistic,
objective perspective in the face of the situations we have to deal with. But if
we quickly learn to adopt this attitude, it will make us save a lot of headache.
Remember that when we’re immersed in the problem, it can seem bigger than it is,
but we only need to take a step back and go outside to put everything into perspective.
5. Face your fears, be yourself and follow your dreams
Many people NEVER fail in life. NEVER. These are called losers.
The concept is simple, if you never want to fail, don’t try and live in mediocrity,
but if you want to do something important, be ready to fail not once but 100 times,
and absorb the criticisms you receive, even if in most cases they’re not very constructive and
they’re from those who have nothing better to do. You only live once. Don’t care about the judgement
of others (with the obvious exception of constructive criticism that should instead
be welcomed, since they help you grow) and face your fears before they consume you. In reality,
fear is a defensive emotion and it warns us that something may be dangerous. But there
are fears that are paralysing, they stop us from growing. In such cases,
you have to overcome them. And the sooner you overcome them the better it is, given
that once you have overcome a fear, you will hardly return to worrying about them because
you now know how to defeat them. Which of these 5 errors do you
make? If you’d like, share it with us by leaving a comment with your experience.
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