Things I've learned

I have had some serious problems with Blogger. One post disappeared and another changed in a weird way. Sorry about that.

On another blog I found my way to this list from Eric Zorn with things he have learned during his 50 years of life.

I got inspired and tried to do a list of my own. Even if I haven't lived very long yet it seemed fun. If I'm as young and dumb as I suspect I will have a lot of fun in 22 years when I can do a list as long as his.

1. If don't even you know yourself it's very hard for others to get to know you.
2. To learn to accept the things you cannot change and to get the courage to change the things you can takes wisdom that needs hard work. With that kind of work many failures will come along your way. But without it failure might be all you get.
3. Dream about your future. That makes for a good start when figuring out what is realistic to do with your time.
4. Keep track of your many dreams for your future. If you do so you will get surprised by how many that comes true.
5. Learn how to do one fine dinner from scratch every year. Something you haven't cooked before. Anyone can learn to cook one fine dinner in one year and after a couple of years you have a lot to choose from if you want or need to cook. If you don't cook you still have given your creativity a boost.
   
6. Learn the basic chemistry of the human body. You are a lot more than just hormones and chemistry but if you learn about them hormones you will get a short cut to the rest of yourself.
7. Dance more often! It is never to late and always to little. If it is in ballroom at a castle, on a club or in your room with closed curtains makes little difference. The importance lies in getting to know en enjoy your body.
8. Throw or give away one piece of clothing for every new one you buy.
   
9. To become angry, sad, disappointed and mad is easy but it takes a lot of practice and analyzing to get good at it. To keep a journal to write in during the peak of such emotions and go back when your are in a good place is a very effective way of learning how you really work.
10. Focus on finding the questions that you carry instead of finding their answers. You'll get farther than you think by just knowing what you wonder about. However, focusing on finding the answers will certainly slow you down.
11. If you can read this, you are more rich and more educated than most people in the world.
    
12. Wisdom and close friends might be the most valuable things in life. None of them can be bought or forced, but both will come for free if you work on being honest, open, trustworthy and admit your mistakes and learn from them. Note that you don't have to succeed in all that, just really work on it.
13. Lists makes things seem easier then they really are. Without lists things often gets harder then they really are.
14. Write a really honest journal at least once in a while. If you're to paranoid/disappointed/scared to keep it then destroy it after you've written it. The process of writing is the important part.
15. You are more beautiful than you think you are.
16. Most of the people in the world think where you live and how you live are exotic and foreign.
17. Take care of your health. It is so much easier taking care of an existing one than buying a new one later.
18. Family is much more than just blood bonds. It is living together sharing life and usually gets better the more you do just that, live and share.
19. Being normal is not normal. Very few people are what is looked upon as normal.
20. Make a budget and stick to it. Keeping track of your money really is worth it. It takes to much time later on not doing it.
21. Understand that most of the times you run away you're trying to run away from yourself.
22. During the state of fear the brain isn't physically able to think critically
23. Lies will bring loneliness.
24. Honesty, respect and openness will open doors and bring you to very interesting places.
25. Both living in the way that is right for you and in ways that are wrong for you are both exhausting but in different ways. But only one of them brings freedom.
26. When people talk about others being embarrassing or ridiculous it tells you nothing but how ashamed they are themselves.
27. Do listen to your elders. Life teaches good lessons and they have much knowledge you might need. It takes to long to figure out life on your own.
28. Listen to yourself.

So Blogger might file this away too but if you got to here. I wish you a very interesting new year!