early learned life lessons from a 24 year old

[Trainwreck]

about me:

I am a recent college graduate with a decent job in a long term relationship

1). Life is a game, "Winners do what works, Losers do what they wish would work".
You either play it to win or you lose. The worst you can do is be some bystander with a passive picket fence mentality. The saying that life is not fair is 100% accurate. You can either acknowledge this fact and do what you need to do to win or end up being some loser blurting out MGTOW, religious karma bullshvt, trump/Hillary will save me, and etc.

2). Do a study abroad in college
I do not care if you have to take out a loan because you will not ever get 3 months to experience a country/continent after graduation. This pretty much the only shot you'll get at this, so take it while you can.

3). Start working out in high school.
One of the few things my dad was right about was that the people that exercised on their own free time in high school kept that as a habit for the rest of their lives. However, being on the football/basketball team does not count because once you are done playing sports you are done.

4). This applies to 1 too, but don't dvck around in college.
Major in something that will land you a decent paying job out of college. Sure you may love being a history major now, but you will not when you're 24 driving a **** used car making 11 bucks a hour doing labor work while living with your parents when the people that chose good majors are making over 50k out of college, driving nicer cars, and living in those hip apartments downtown.

5). Your parents are capable of screwing you over
I feel like some parents are extremely jealous about their kids having a fresh start and they covertly screw them over by giving them bad advice or thru terrible parenting. You can not truly get out of your parents domain until you are indepedent. This is why you need to be as independent as possible after you turn 18. I understand, they will help you out with some bills, but your ass needs to be able to pay for your own rent and transportation by 19.

6). Politics are for bitter people
I believe that happier people tend to fall in the middle of the political line. If you are a staunch republican or staunch democrat then you are just an unhappy person in general unless either of these political parties pays you money. People like Rush Limbaugh make money off of getting you mad. Life is too short to be getting agitated over **** you cannot change.

 

[Who Dares Win]

"Winners do what works, Losers do what they wish would work" you won already just by this very gold standard line

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

I prefer the saying that winners make stuff work for them. And what the heck does studying abroad do? I never understood that. You're just in another country. So what? As for number 3, you can't go back in time. I don't think there's anyone on these boards who is still in high school. Maybe Toni is but he might be done soon. 4 is just dependent on the person. I realized this sophomore year in high school and just needed to get adjusted to the way university grading works. I second that parents can screw you over out of jealousy lol. I find this to be especially true if they came from working class families and they themselves didn't have as much when they were our age. My father isn't like this, but sometimes my mother is. Wish someone told me this sooner, but I still realized it at somewhat an earlier age (~11 or 12 I think). And for your last point, I wholeheartedly agree. People who represent one extreme or the other not the nicest of people to say the least and they tend to get irritated over the slightest of things. I find it best to be in the middle while taking a strong and unwavering stance in the middle. Some people who are on one extreme don't even hold strong opinions on why they choose to be that way. They just do. Weak people.

 

[PeasantPlayer]

For some reason this seems like poor pop advice, to each their own