Some life lessons hit you like a train. Out of your control and unpleasant as hell. Others kind of sneak up on you and just plant themselves inside your brain. Like those slug things from Animorphs (awesome book series, the tv show did it absolutely NO justice). But then there are those life lessons you kind of just stumble across. And upon discovering them, like finding a twenty dollar bill chilling on the ground, you can't help but smile. What's more is the smile is genuine and real and happy rather than a sarcastic expression of "Ugh. Fuck My Life."
Life lessons like those, far and few in between as they may be, always provide you with a sense of accomplishment. They always remind you of one thing: just how great life can be. For me, the moment came in realizing how so many of my friends (as well as acquaintances, frenemies, nd all those peripheral categories) are kinda just stuck in limbo at what is, the greatest time of our lives. This isn't a time to spend doing nothing. Or a time to spend in frantic frustration and despair. This is a time of exploration and enlightenment. THE opportunity. The next decade is ours to take hold of and either give way to greatness or give rise to ruin.
And yet so many of them waste time complaining about how suckish everything is. Suckish indeed. But guess who's doing the sucking?
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