THE LESSONS OF A LIFETIME: A Synopsis of Insights

    At age 1: 
    Ice cream tastes good.

    At age 9: 
    Alcohol tastes bad.

    At age 11: 
    Altered states of consciousness exist.

    At age 18: 
    Humans are hardly the most powerful beings around.

    At age 20: 
    The FBI indirectly caused my father's death.
    Ah, how far Big Brother extends!

    At age 23: 
    Love contains a healing alchemy.

    At age 25: 
    Observing a dead corpse closely is an excellent chance 
    to reflect on our fate.

    At age 27: 
    One of the most precious gifts is trust.

    At age 28: 
    Falling in love is easy; 
    staying in love requires disciplined work.

    At age 32: 
    For brief moments, we can be like gods. 
    However, sometimes we are utterly blind and petty.

    At age 38: 
    Shopping is a form of voting: 
    by purchasing things you help them manifest.

    At age 40: 
    All people are storytellers and after they are convinced their story is "right," 
    generally they're locked into that narrative.

    At age 44: 
    The whole notion of "self" is an invention: 
    a useful myth, but fiction nonetheless.

    At age 48: 
    No human is infallible; 
    to worship another as "enlightened" amounts to idolatry.

    At age 49: 
    We have negotiate with many selves on many levels, 
    a task that's often difficult to do smoothly.

    At age 51: 
    Even after a person passes away, 
    part of them is still with you when you remember them.

    At age 52: 
    It's better to understand your enemies than to condemn them.

    At age 55: 
    Too much intellectualization 
    cuts us off from direct experience.

    At age 58: 
    The wheel of life moves in mysterious circles.

    At age 66: 
    There's still much to learn . . .


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from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields
Summary: A simple list of some things I have come to believe over the years. 
Keywords: life Lessons, garnered wisdom, human insights, life Lessons, 
          wisdom of a lifetime, insights with age, wisdom from experience, 
          personal realizations

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2007 in Tokyo, Japan  ☆ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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