The hardest lesson you had to learn?

Being on my own.

Money doesn't grow on trees. For yrs my parents told me, but I didn't believe them. I would ask for money for this or that and had no concept of saving or working, etc. And they would always tell me the same thing...you know, money doesn't gro on trees. I thought they just hid the tree from me until I was old enough...more responsible. But sure enough, it doesn't. My birthday this year I turned 29 and asked my folks for that tree I just knew they had been hoarding away from me. I was beyond shocked to find that the tree did not exist. It has been tough. I've been spending to frivolously and now I have nothing to fall back on. No job. No tree. Hard lesson.

To save my money. It's all about delayed gratification, man. My husband was out of work for a while, and that really taught us the value of a dollar. Now we deny ourselves a lot so that we can buy the things we really want and need later, like a nice home of our own. It was hard to learn to save, a painful way to learn that lesson, but it was a good one, and I'm thankful for it!

to not take work to seriously. I use to have a job I was working 80+ hours a week at, sure the money was great but the second time I woke up in the hospital I woke up and now take things easy.

Realizing that I can't depend fully on my parents and I need to be independent so as to suffice for myself and to survive in general. Oh, and lazyness is not an endearing quality...and it takes something really pressuring like...your mother not being able to care for the household and having to be in charge of your siblings and the house....to change that way of living.

When you drive around town make damn sure you know where you're going. This is very serious and not a sarcastic answer.

Gosh! Probably when I discovered that the world, the REAL world, is tough.

life is too short to take your family and loved ones for granted

never trust the aliens when they take you up in their ships they make you take your shoes off and do the most horrible things to you and your pores are never the same again like horrible craters scattered all over the face of your

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That everything isn't always my fault, nor is it always under my control, and that this fact is not my fault, either.

That you can not change people.