Things No One Else Can Teach Us

by Humble the Poet

You are the only person capable of creating real change in your life. And you can feel that real change only when you can feel it within you.

Many of those experiences weren’t pleasant, and you may not want to revisit them, but the discomfort, pain, and overall shitty feeling that came from those experiences is the price we all have to pay to gain that wisdom.

all the people we meet are our teachers.

Wisdom can’t be told or taught by anyone else; only we can mine the jewels of wisdom ourselves.

Companies make stuff to break so we’ll buy the next generation of stuff, which will also break. This makes the world, and life, feel that much more temporary.

I stood in the hospital room staring at her lifeless body, I thought of my mother and father and how, if everything plays out as it should, I’ll be watching them pass away too one day.

The fact that life is temporary—the happiness, the joy, the hope, the fear, the pain, the sorrow, the victories, the defeats—is the most comforting and terrifying fact of existence.

recognizing that everything is temporary can take a lot of the pressure off and help you jump headfirst into life,

how much we lose from holding on.

Looking at life through the lens of time shows us how patience is a superpower. Loss feeds love and encourages us to look at the bigger picture.

but I had to audit the people I spent my time with.

I decided that if someone wasn’t helping me get to where I needed to be, then that person most likely was getting in my way.

I started with the people in my life who were less than inspiring, even toxic.

In other words, I wanted to be around people only if they could help and inspire me on my journey.

I felt like I was in “sink-or-swim” mode, and even the good people in my life were slowing me down.

If you want to go fast, go alone .

either I didn’t feel those people were helping me to get where I wanted to go, or I worried they were trying to use me.

The “what can you do for me” mindset is dripping out of the palm trees.

Remembering that the people in our lives won’t be here forever is the best way to motivate us to be as wonderful to them as possible, while they’re still here.

The people we have won’t always be here, so let’s not deprive ourselves of their presence simply because we’re too caught up in wanting more of some other stuff.

I started making a list of other people in my life who, like Boomerang, may not have been well versed on my hustle but were wonderful for my spirit. I took that list and put reminders in my phone to reach out to those people every fifty days.

I put our hangouts into my calendar because if something’s not in my schedule, it’s not a priority.

Words mean nothing if actions don’t follow.

We don’t have to trust others when they come into our worlds; we just have to trust ourselves to handle whatever happens.

Sometimes

it takes great loss to remind us of what we have.

“Our problems are only real because we forget we’re going to die.”

I should enjoy this journey while I’m still healthy enough to do so.

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A little better is a step up from a little worse, and those baby steps can add up, so splash your feet.