FACTS OF LIFE EXPERIENCES

 

The author found great joy in collecting facts of life experiences from people of all walks of life from all over the world, just so that someone who is in need at the right time will benefit from it. She is very grateful to all those who contributed.

Here are some Life’s Learning Experiences or Facts of Life of each individual’s experience, who have willingly and graciously contributed to this topic.  These are experiences of people from all walks of life, (University Students, Housewives, Sales & Manager Professionals, Business owners and Retired Personnel's) and different age brackets beginning from age 20 to 70. We can learn from these experiences and improve our way of living and our way of thinking.  Its better to walk the minefield where somebody has already walked ahead of you.  Take the supermarket approach, grab what you need in your basket so that you can make use of it immediately and leave the rest behind that you do not need and/or cannot afford to take it.  Come back and grab some more when you can afford to and when the time is right for you.  Enjoy reading and hope it brings you peace knowing someone else’s experience resonates with yours, contentment that some individuals thinks like you, wisdom from someone else’s experience, knowledge and understanding to withstand any challenge before it arises.

 I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every individual who invested their time and contributed their life experience without any hesitation for the benefit of others.  Your messages are priceless and will definitely help all those who read.

                            Facts of Life Experiences

1. Eat your food as medicine, if you don’t, you will have to eat your medicine as food. 
2. Life is unpredictable. You will never know when you have to leave this world. Always work toward meeting your creator and not the destroyer. 
3. Give as much as you would want to receive. 
4. Love yourself first. Whatever size and shape you may be, love yourself. Whatever is your profession or education love yourself. Whatever maybe your bank balance, appreciate and love yourself. When you love yourself first, you will then find beauty in others and love others. Physical appearance is temporary. Look for inner beauty. If you don’t love yourself the way you are then loving others becomes fake and temporary. 
5. Life is too short to worry about things that you have no control of.
6. Not all what you see with your eyes is what you think in your mind. Sometimes you need to seek both sides of the story to understand, rather than judge. 
7. Do not have love for money.  Have love for what you can do with the money. Make wise decisions how you use your money. Make a difference in someone’s life even if it has to be your own.
8. However farther you move away from the values you were brought up with, you will never forget it.  Life and situation will bring you back to those values and it will become more real as never before. 
9. Sometimes we say harsh words to just let it out of our chest and then forget about it but remember the one who is at the listening end will never forget how you made them feel. So best to personalize good words but to generalize the not so good words. 
10. When things go wrong with life, relationships, health, finance, continue working on them and you will see the light. Do not lose hope. Just like how a creative person turns a hopeless craft to a masterpiece. Just like how God uses the ordinary to bring about the extraordinary. 
11. Good thinking is hard work, it will do wonders in your life. Invest time in good thinking.
12. People are people, some will be one track minded and some will be multiple track minded. As long as you understand them it will not bother you,
13. When you are in need, there will be some who support you physically, and mentally and some who don’t. Love the ones who support you and respect the ones who don’t. They might be in a situation that you are not aware of, or do not understand.
14. The impossible is always the untried. Take risks in life and achieve the impossible.
15. When I do things that make me happy, I know my brain is releasing endorphins that is happy chemicals. I make sure I am happy every day.
16. Limit yourself to physical hunger only, not to emotional hunger and sensory hunger. This will prevent you from overweight, obesity and depression.
17. Don’t allow anyone or anything to take away your peace of mind. It’s not worth it. 
18. You cannot suck and blow at the same time. It either has to be yes or no, agree, or disagree, love or hate, right or wrong. 
19. Books are the best mentors that tell you things that most mentors don’t. Choose wisely what you read.
20. Walking your dog, gives you many health benefits. Counting your steps, breathing fresh air, good blood circulation, helps in mental health, make new friends, be mindful, good thinking, generate great ideas and many more.
21. If you don’t spend time with your children when they are young, they will end up not spending time with you when you are old.
22. Expectations in life gives you disappointments, expectations in life also drives you to work on your goals and challenges.
23. There are many lessons that you can learn from your pet dog, for example, love unconditionally.
24. What you can do in 30 seconds do it now, or else you’ll never end up doing it.
25. Do not wait until you have a feeling to act upon a situation. Take action and the feeling will automatically arouse in you. for example, do not wait to feel like cleaning your room. Clean your room and you will get into the groove of continuing to clean and feel accomplished and happy.
26. The devil will always obstruct you to go on your knees, pray and read the Bible. Remember, he has no power over you unless you give it to him.
27. Sometimes relationships are spoiled when you speak the truth, and sometimes relationships are spoiled when you lie. Speak the truth in such a way that you do not hurt the other person directly, because people remember more how you make them feel rather than what words came out of your mouth. When you tell a lie, you will have to remember all your life, and always remember no lie is bound within the 4 walls forever. Every lie will be out someday, somehow. 
28. Do not overdo anything because when you do anything in excess, you are either hurting yourself or others. For example, exercise, eating, drinking, reading, talking, spending time or money etc.
29. You need not boast what you do. Your actions will speak louder than words. The results of your work will shout out loud. 
30. When you are committed to doing something, nothing will come in between. No obstacles can prevent you from your commitment. Make sure your commitment is strong. 
31. Words once spoken cannot be taken back. Choose your words wisely. 
32. To live in your past successes is the beginning of failure.

33.  Prioritise your peace. Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.

34.  Progress is not linear. It is not a straight line. There will be highs and lows but that doesn't mean that there isn't any progress.

35.  Sit with your feelings especially with your grief. It is important to sit with it and deal with it.

36.  Find people who bring out the inner child in you.

37.  You are responsible for your own happiness.

38.  Spend some time all by yourself more often and get to know yourself. You can't expect others to enjoy your company if you don't enjoy your own company.

39.  Choose those who choose you. Don't be a go to person to a person you can't go to.

40. Giving Gratitude to God early morning is putting on an Armour of faith.  God's enduring, unconditional love will take you through the day. But don't forget to thank God when you lay to sleep. 🙏❤️
41. Small joys multiply to big happiness. Count your every blessing.
42. Do not harbor hatred in your heart because then there will be no space for love.
43. In Life's journey you meet many... Some stay back, some move on.  Whenever you remember moments shared with anyone, smile and thank them silently. 
44. Spend time alone daily, doing what you love, it brings calmness to your thoughts.
45. Every day is a new beginning, so it is okay not to know everything in one day 😊
46. Read and learn something new daily, keeps your mind active.
47. Eat what makes you happy. But keep a check on the quantity hahaha.
48. Walking is good habit but wear comfortable shoes or you will have sore feet.
49. God send's His angels to help you when you seek His mercy. Don't forget His angels. 
50. Took calculative risk to climb my career & Business Graph. 
51. Never lose HOPE as it’s the only thing that will keep you going .
52. I have 4 selfless friends / family  as that count is enough to carry my coffin.
53. Always do good to others & never expect anything in return, as Goodness will come to you from elsewhere in time of need. I have experienced.
54. Target to earn enough money so that you can help another person in their time of need.
55. Never forget the good deeds, monetary help and moral support you have received from others when you were down.
56. Work hard and smart to overcome your financial challenges.  Only you can make that decision for you, so that you can be a blessing to others. 
57. Children are together until parents take their last breath.
58. Never impose anything into your child’s mind, especially how you have been brought up.
59. Do not depend on anyone for anything. Fight the situation.
60. Bring Laughter wherever you go. When you cry, cry under the shower alone.
61. Do not expect your children to take care of you when you grow old. Save every penny wisely for your old age.
62. Only if you have money, people respect you.
63. When you have to convey a message to the other person across you, ensure you use the right tone and speak, or else you lose your self respect.
64. Don’t forget to pamper yourself, make time for yourself.
65. Make friends very wisely, who will stand by you when you need them and vice versa.
66. Learn to give too, not only take. You will lose your respect if you only keep taking. It could be love, respect, charity, time, money, help. 
67. All human beings are loving, compassionate, peaceful irrespective of which country or religion they belong. 
68. We cannot change the world .... only person you can attempt to change is yourself.  If everyone does that, world will be much better place.  
69. Laughter is the best medicine and it is free. Do spread laughter every day at least to one person 
70. Human body is the greatest gift creator has given .... let us honor the valuable gift and give the best and greatest ingredients every day! 
71. The world wants your attention and time. Let us be conscious of that and find ways and means to stay in the present ! 
72. Someone has rightly said .... life is a journey from loneliness to solitude. In this journey let us become our own best friend .
73. Comparison is the source of all troubles... let us live a life of gratitude for all the things which has been provided to us.
74. God wants us to make most of this life .... wants us to become a hero and achieve extraordinary things.... that means let us avoid hero worshiping others and work towards become our own hero!
75. The only Fact of Life for me is my body is Mortal .  When I constantly remember this:

my thoughts, words and actions are limited. With limitations on only required thoughts, words, and actions, I get wiser. Wisdom makes my time limitation, direct me towards good and positively for myself and the universe around me. Making lesser mistakes. This makes me balanced emotionally too. Absorbing  from our 5 senses along with past experiences we create a future. Here in the present, we need to use wisdom to eliminate and let go not required thoughts and emotions, so we enjoy the present time and make whatever future we have a better space to live.

76. As I grow older and wiser, I like to tell you about a few facts of life I’ve learned on my journey through my experiences. Material possessions: Society and the physical world give too much preference to our outside appearance hence we spend years trying to collect many material goods – a grand house, a great car, a big title, branded outfits, for an outward show.  It never stops because we always want more.  We spend years toiling to collect these, but we never stop to think of the stress we go through trying so hard to please our ego.  In actuality, we do not need all that much, having the basic necessities and being thankful for what we have takes the stress away leaving us with less disease and more time to enjoy what we have. 

Likes and Dislikes: When we like something, we are happy.  Be it a chore or a job.  When we dislike something, we are filled with total unease.  If we step back and observe any activity with neither like or dislike, we become neutral and, in that neutrality, we can accomplish anything with ease.  It makes it even easier when we add the purpose of why we are doing the activity…  keeping a clean house, having clean dishes to eat in, putting food on the table, staying healthy.

Letting go of Disturbances: Being human we experience many emotions.  Emotions that are positive, make us feel light.  Emotions that are negative, bring a heaviness to our body (I call them disturbances).  Every emotion gets stored in different parts of our body.  In order to be healthy we need to retain the positive emotions and expunge the disturbances.  However, we have become experts at learning how to hold on tight to all our emotions – especially the heavier ones.  Instead of purging them, we hide them well and cleverly cover it up with, “Time Heals”.   Unfortunately, the heavier emotions are similar to chronic constipation, causing an unease, resulting in disease.  Self reflection of these emotions and learning ways to let go is key to being happy.  The best way in my experience to do this is through meditation.

Giving up Control: We go through life wanting absolute control over everything and have a Plan A and Plan B. We fall apart every time things go wrong.  To stay on the right end of the stick, we have to trust in a power that is bigger than us.  I strongly believe that we live in an intelligent Universe and we are all connected.  Everything happens for a reason to bring us to where we need to be.  If we don’t learn to ride the waves, we are constantly fighting with the current. Trusting the Universe by seeing each challenge as an opportunity directs us closer to where we need to be.

Competition: We learned at a young age about competition and always emerging the winner. As a race, our competitiveness has given rise to emerging the winner at any cost.  We lose sight of our values when winning becomes the ultimate. We start to compare our kids to others to coax them into competition. We go out of our way to boast and command respect.  Void of any self reflection, we can become part of this race very easily and often, it ends in disastrous outcomes.  I’ve learned through experience working towards being better than I was yesterday keeps my values intact and never leads me to a path where I think too little of myself and give up.

Occupation: In the culture I grew up, the pressure of earning a degree (with honours) was immense.  I came to believe myself, that the highest education was the way to go.  I have made it around the world with extremely successful titles. I do not believe this is because of my education but because of my curiosity to learn and adaptability of every situation I was in.  I have recently left the corporate world and come to work in the trades industry.  The myths and stigma associated with the trade world is complete BS.  Unfortunately, I was never open to understanding the trade world.  There are so many options that exist and so much potential.  Our closed opinions about a career in the trade world may be detrimental to our progress.

 

77.   “Life is not Measured by the Number of Breaths I take, but the Moments that Take My Breath Away”.

There is no truer statement, sadly it takes losing a loved one to realize how true this is.

In 2009 I lost my beloved husband to cancer, fairly quickly, and the one thing that got me through were the memories we shared with one another.  The fun time, the laughter, the love.  We would sit up late and talk and laugh, sharing our life together. Our family would come and do the same. Now, to many this may seem hard to do, but I learned that this was the best medicine for us all.

Memories… we build them over the years, and they are meant to be shared.

By sharing them, speaking of the people who have touched you, what you have done together, that keeps them alive.

No one can take your memories from you, THEY ARE YOURS!

Those memories become moments in our lives, we cherish them.

It is not how long we live; it is about how we live while we are here!

Those who I have lost, I have amazing memories, and Moments That Take My Breath Away when I think of those memories.

You see, with my memories and those moments, I have not lost those people. 

They are forever with me, in my heart and in my memories.

In the actions I have, in the words I use, in the way I carry myself.

Lesson: Hold those memories close… share those memories… those who have passed will always be alive in spirit.

Have a blessed tomorrow and remember to make Memories every day!

You will find your life will be enriched.

 

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Best wishes,

 

Joy

Certified Freelance Writer & Life Coach