What lesson(s) did you learn too late in life ?

[kingrollo]

1. Get a skilled trade

2.Even if you were the weedy asthmatic who everyone laughed at because you were shoot at sport - you can still take up exercise later in life

3.If you think something isn't right - speak out.

 

[Electric_Andy]

You shouldn't try to please everyone before you've pleased yourself*

* (not an innuendo)

 

[steveindenmark]

I dont think you can learn lessons too late. As long as you learn.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That shares in Microsoft and Apple in the 1980s would have been a good buy.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

That beer is so much more than just a breakfast beverage.

 

[fossyant]

Don't assume anything. Assume, makes an ASS of U and ME

Thinking people will do their jobs has landed me in the poop previously. I don't trust many folk to actually get on with their job now.

 

[Dave7]

1. Get a skilled trade

2.Even if you were the weedy asthmatic who everyone laughed at because you were shoot at sport - you can still take up exercise later in life

3.If you think something isn't right - speak out.

How long have you got??
With you on number 1. and did number 2 (so to speak).
3.Brought up by strict religious parents (mainly my dad) so missed out on much of the 60s Mersey beat movement. I wish I had got the courage to walk away as a young lad.**
**tbf thats where I met my lively wife of 53 years and as our grand kids says, if I had walked away as a lad then they wouldn't exist.......funny old life innit.
4. As a married couple my job offered us the chance to move to Australia or South Africa. I sometimes think 'what if'.
However, in general I have been happy with the path life has taken.

 

[Smudge]

In my younger days, i smoked a lot, drank a lot, partied hard and often did hard manual work with little or no H&S.
In later life, i realised i wasn't indestructible after all.

 

[marinyork]

1. You can generally do most things.

2. You are all right looking.

3. You get on with most people.

 

[Edwardoka]

That adults don't have all the answers and more often than not the people in charge are just making it up as they go along.
You cannot rely on authority to be helpful or to sort out issues.
To be able to recognise a bad situation and get out of it before you get in too deep (still learning this one.)
If something is free you're not the customer, you're the product.
Physical skills are permanently useful, being "good with computers" requires constant refreshers
Learning because you want to is far more valuable than learning because it is required or expected
It becomes much harder to acquire new skills after a certain age

etc etc

 

[Edwardoka]

3.If you think something isn't right - speak out.

Trust your instincts when they tell you something isn't right

 

[HMS_Dave]

1. Stop eating so much and become a gluttonous fat b@stard
2. Being afraid to make changes, be what may.
3. Not spending enough time with loved ones no longer here.

 

[tony111]

Wish I'd put a stop to being treated like a mug a little bit earlier in life.

 

[Chris S]

That my secondary school was a microcosm of society. Adults don't behave any different from children.

 

[DCBassman]

That my mind is stuffed with apparently useless info (what was once called "general knowledge"), and most other peoples' minds seem to be stuffed with sport/tv/clickbait/celebrity shoot.
This tv carp is so ingrained that during my recent hospital stay, the first thing I tidied away was the TV remote. Every single member of staff, if they noticed it, would ceremonially retrieve it and place it close to hand, with my words "I never watch TV" not impinging on any discernible consciousness.