What Have You Learned About Yourself Recently??

[Plane_Guy]

Apparently I take inspiring pictures while at work.

 

[Mei5ter]

That her eyes are truly the windows on her soul .

 

[lurkingguy1978]

That I'm not as good as I like to think I am.

That will have to be enough.

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

That I hate feeling like a nag or a bother.
If I've asked you for something, and you don't make time or effort, that says all it needs to say.

 

[NeonSubtlety]

I felt like my emotional side had atrophied to the point that it would take long-term recooperative efforts to revive it. But, it turns out that, as silent as it had been, it was there all along. All it took was a wedding, a girl, and a winery to help me realize it.

I’m still a sweet. Or...I can still be sweet. It’s nice to know that.

 

[blazin24]

The older I get, the grumpier....

 

[Tenderkiss]

For 43 years I never felt I was worth it. No matter what the “it” was. I figured whatever happened to me or how others treated me, I derseved it. Any problem in the marriage, my fault.

I learned that I don’t need to live in guilt, that I am worth it. And everything isn’t my fault.

 

[starrynightin64]

my tolerance for stupid customer service people has slipped
from giving them 3 tries to fix their behavior to 2
then calling in their boss to correct them.

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

I still spend too much energy wanting to please the wrong people, and I still put up with way too much shit from them.

Time to thin the herd again, and find some balance.

 

[starrynightin64]

I still spend too much energy wanting to please the wrong people, and I still put up with way too much shit from them.

Time to thin the herd again, and find some balance.

I had to do that last year. It sure lightens up the load of stress.

 

[Wetsider]

That I'm still trying to figure it all out and that there isn't some magic age where the decisions all of a sudden become easy

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

That I'm still trying to figure it all out and that there isn't some magic age where the decisions all of a sudden become easy

They do get easier as you get older.

One day you'll find yourself at an age at which you realize the best answer for half your shit is FUCK YOU.

Maybe next year?

 

[Wetsider]

Maybe... maybe 40 is the answer.

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

Maybe... maybe 40 is the answer.

Oh, are you only 39? Yeah, give it til 45.

 

[Wetsider]

Oh, are you only 39? Yeah, give it til 45.

Well, as of Sunday I'm 39... I cheated a bit so I didn't have to change for a while. I hope it's only until 45...

 

[txgent101]

That I'm still trying to figure it all out and that there isn't some magic age where the decisions all of a sudden become easy

I am age 81 and still waiting....

However, I now have Google to do research.

 

[TheMrBurns]

That five years can go by in a flash.

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

Well, as of Sunday I'm 39... I cheated a bit so I didn't have to change for a while. I hope it's only until 45...

Start practicing now:

Fuck you. Fuck you. FUCK YOU!!

 

[Tallulah82]

That I don't think I'll ever not bite off more than I can chew.

 

[Tenderkiss]

Lit ain’t for me.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

The older I get, the less patience I have for fools, wankers and twatwaffles.

Oh, and "twatwaffles" is my new favorite word

 

[Tedfkats]

That I just need to be smarter.

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

I don't know about things I've actually learned but am learning -

Growing up, my grandparents lived on a farm and a pecan orchard. The pecan trees were huge and gorgeous and this time of year I always think of them. There were fences about 8-10 feet from the trees around their bases to protect all the fallen pecans from the cows who loved to graze on them.
Plenty of pecans fell past those fences. Those trees were huge. Plenty enough for the cows to be satisfied. They were the same pecans, no better no worse. But those dumb cows were always getting their heads stuck in the fences trying to get to the off-limits pecans. I asked my grandfather one day when we were "unfencing" a cow, why she just didn't eat the pecans all around her feet. And he told me maybe the most poignant advice of my life - "Because cows are just dumber more stubborn versions of people - they only want it because they can't have it."

I think I've passed up good things, good people, because I didn't trust them because I didn't have to fight for them or prove something to them. And I end up wasting energy on people who could not possibly care less. A fence shouldn't make someone more desirable, the nuts all fell of the same tree.

Ok, enough rambling - just a thought I woke up with this morning.
Have a great day

 

[Sexybritches69]

I don't know about things I've actually learned but am learning -

Growing up, my grandparents lived on a farm and a pecan orchard. The pecan trees were huge and gorgeous and this time of year I always think of them. There were fences about 8-10 feet from the trees around their bases to protect all the fallen pecans from the cows who loved to graze on them.
Plenty of pecans fell past those fences. Those trees were huge. Plenty enough for the cows to be satisfied. They were the same pecans, no better no worse. But those dumb cows were always getting their heads stuck in the fences trying to get to the off-limits pecans. I asked my grandfather one day when we were "unfencing" a cow, why she just didn't eat the pecans all around her feet. And he told me maybe the most poignant advice of my life - "Because cows are just dumber more stubborn versions of people - they only want it because they can't have it."

I think I've passed up good things, good people, because I didn't trust them because I didn't have to fight for them or prove something to them. And I end up wasting energy on people who could not possibly care less. A fence shouldn't make someone more desirable, the nuts all fell of the same tree.

Ok, enough rambling - just a thought I woke up with this morning.
Have a great day

Thank you for sharing this. Your grandfather sounds like a very wise man.

 

[Gemma_0]

That I don't know as much as I thought I did.