Life Lessons (Not from the Textbook)

We learn so much in the course of our school life, but if I am being honest how much of it does one actually apply? Where am I going to use trigonometry or surds in my life? I will probably just use basic addition and subtraction. What school doesn’t teach us is how to make the most of life. They never teach us how to love ourselves, how to love our bodies. We spend most of our life mugging things from our textbooks but there are some things that even textbooks cannot teach us. So here are some life lessons which are not from any kind of textbook or are copied from the first line of Wikipedia

1. Stop being self-conscious

-Trust me when I say nobody is tracking your every move, it may sure look like it but it is not true

-Everyone is too deeply absorbed in their worries and problems

-If you want to try out for a team go for it, if you want to try out for something only the ‘popular kids’ do then please go ahead, life is too short to waste it on worrying about what others think of you

2. Manage your time well

-You must be wondering why I added this because it is in practically every textbook that exists

-What I mean by this you do not have to set unrealistic standards for yourself, you can’t just entirely change your schedule just to wake up at 7 am

-What you need to do is start with baby steps, not everyone wakes up at the crack of dawn like textbooks expect you to. Try starting by waking up at 9 am instead of 11 am.

-If you want some more tips you can check out my blog on time management

3. Stop comparing yourself to others

-Let’s face it, you cannot be better than everyone at everything. There will be people who are better than you at something

-Don’t let it discourage you, you should let it motivate you and want it to make you work harder. Take it as a challenge, they always say, practice makes perfect

4. Love yourself

-Yes, I know it does sound very cliché but it is the truth

-If there is one thing I would tell you to make you realize how important it is it would be this:

You cannot love someone until you love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you will always think that you're not enough.

5. The people you love are going to hurt you

-It happens, you cannot control it. Even if they don’t mean it, it is bound to happen

-Truth is everyone is going to hurt you, you just have to find the ones worth suffering for

6. Not everything will just workout

-You have to understand; your life is not a movie. You do not just sit around and get into college

-If you have a disagreement or fight with your friend or family, you cannot just wait it out and wait for them to come and apologize to you, it does not work that way

-If you want something, you have to work for it

7. You may not always end up with someone

- That is okay, not everyone is meant to end up with someone

- It should always be you looking out for yourself

- To tell you the truth, it is always going to be you against the world

8. You’re going to go through rough emotional patches

- You’re going have mental breakdowns, you cannot always hold it together

- If you always keep yourself together, you will end up having no heart left inside of you

- Emotions are very important, they make you want to work harder and better yourself every day and who knows they may help you discover some things you didn’t know about yourself

- Remember to check in with yourself and make sure you’re okay once in a while, do not bottle up your emotions

9. Sometimes you’re not going to have answers

-That’s the beauty of life, unanswered questions are the greatest sign of adventure

-It is okay if you don’t know something, you will eventually find out. Not everything will be handed to you on a silver platter

10.Life is not an essay

- You can’t summarize what your feeling

- You note down the countless memories

But remember to write a story, heck even a series that is worth reading because you only have one life and you should make the most of it.

Thanks for reading

xx Mahika