To not rely on anyone but myself

I learned that if you spend too much time working to support a family you miss out on all the things that make a family what it is.

I learned your friends are the family that you get to choose.

I learned that no matter how many times a person loves and is hurt that each and every moment is still a precious life lesson.

I learned that you learn far more about oneself from failure than we ever do from success.

I learned that you don't have to be the strongest smartest or best at whatever you do as long as you have good manners and are polite people will like you.(This is something I tell my son all the time.)

I learned that if one does not speak of politics or religion it is possible to get along well with just about anyone.

I learned that folding a paper too much before rolling it makes it more difficult to roll.

I learned that just about anything can be turned into a pipe.

I learned that normal school didn't teach me anything I couldn't learn on my own at my own pace.

I learned that if you grab a man by the balls while you throw him he will jump half the distance on his own.

I learned I am my own worst enemy.

I learned how much I could truly really love someone when my son was born.

I learned we should never stop attempting to learn more.

Can`t really say I have learnt anything.. I have always followed my heart, automatically avoiding drawing conclusions. I know there is a lot to be learnt about people and stuff, but I don`t give a ****, I just know it`s a waste of time :p I rather stay open-minded, going forward no matter what happens.

I learned a long time ago that whether the great anonymous "THEY" approve or disapprove doesn't make any difference at all in my life.

Never lean over a gas stove while lighting you'll most certainly catch on fire

May I just suggest that if you ever encounter a pool table that needs to be flipped, you rely on yourself to get some big dudes to help you flip it, lest you end up relying on someone else to do even the simplest things like pull up your own underwear.

I learned my lesson. Now I rely on others for help when I need it and I'm not afraid to ask. Took something drastic but I think I got it now.

Great list!!

I particularly dig the last three.

Always follow your instincts.....and first impressions are usually spot on.

The lesson I learned in life was never trust and never lost your virginity to someone you only met in chat!

Follow your instincts

If a man asks for marriage too soon, he is more or less delusional.

To spend more time with people in my physical life. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have internet friends, but the internet became a bit of an obsession with me. Every christmas day, I am suddenly reminded of how much time all of my family spend being apart, well it makes me want to be near them MORE. I don't want to look back on life, only to realize I'd abandoned family members for the internet, after most of em have died. Family is important.

That guy I've known since high school, is a true gem. I can never hate him. He is something truly special.

I learned that life is mostly about being able to let go and simply love.

(Letting go of insecurity, all kinds of fear, ppl => if you love someone, set them free, greed etc)

That I never believed that i'd be a Grandad, until half an hour ago, when my son told me that his girlfriend was 2 months gone. Still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm the happiest i've been in years?

Also not to throw a �3 rocket into your mates tent, when it costs you �100, to buy a new one! Ouch!!

Congratulations! Better start knitting the baby's first kilt and long-socks!

I video called my mum and she was crying, she was so pleased. Started me off too though!

I'm just barely starting to learn my life lessons, I've had to live them first.

It finally took me looking at the end to see the beginning.

I no longer say I will change this about tomorrow cause tomorrow has come and gone and all of those things changed were not really changes but steps along an unique path that has never been traveled before by anyone quite the same as I have and yet at the same time so many have taken these same steps.

Fear is nothing more than something I have created and made into a prison, and bravery is nothing more than something faced and I am now on the other side of. Their not so different except one I thought about and the other I did without thinking through.

Guilt is also something I made, and found that no one else was hanging on to my guilt but me. The battles are not about what they think of me but what do I think of myself.

Love is something that I can choose to have and spread everyday. It's not something that I would have ever gotten by waiting for. It actually is something that I can create, cause it was created for me. It is the one true part of me that has always been, along with life. I can put it on any time I want and wear it as much as I want.

Life I have found is about waking up. Waking up to something old or something new, it doesn't matter. What does matter is the time I spend living it.

nice!

Cheers mate. For the last fourteen and a half years I raised my boy on my own, then he went from Scotland, down to London, to work 7 months ago, after finishing University. He's 22 now and i've just turned 42. Thought that I was gonna relive my youth again, but this has given me the kick up the arse that i've needed lately and it's back to being responsible and setting an example again.