Lessons from Teenage Years

Ready for another installment of completely negative lessons?

I learned that your reputation precedes you. Once a loser, always a loser. Makes it hard to make friends that way. Oh well. Accepted.

You find something that you might actually be decently good at, but everyone decides to think otherwise and bring you down because they can’t imagine you being good at anything. Once a loser, always a loser.

High school was better than college. Strange to say, considering the two lessons above stemmed from high school.

Interests diverge from your friends over time. If you don’t stay up to date, or don’t agree with their interests, you’ll be left in the dust. Prepare for the gradual process of being left out of weekend activities and suddenly not fitting into the synopsis of their weekend.

Set low expectations for everything. It’s still going to hurt when expectations aren’t met, but hey, you can’t control everything.

Every person you meet is the same. You’re not their priority. You’re a spec in a piece of dust of what they call life. Set your expectations low here because when they don’t meet it, you can easily just accept this fact. Remember, it’s still going to hurt. That is life. It’s going to suck.

Did I summarize well enough of how I’m a sad little man? No empathy, please. Not that I’d expect it anyway. Remember, low expectations.