How To Graduate From Life With Honors

Mattie on her graduation day. Graduated at the top of her class!

Dealing with the cable company has caused more anxiety than I can imagine.  My irritation led me to review some life lessons. Thought I would share them with you too. Forgive the sappyness.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:  Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone.
9. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
10. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
11. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
12.  Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
13. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time. 
16. Be gentle with the earth. 
17. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. 
18. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
19. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 
20. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon 
21. Eat a cookie once a week. You’ll feel better
22. Know that the best is yet to come

Thanks to smaknews.com and a website that listed a Nepalese totem message for the compiled lessons. The cookie lesson is all me.

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