What is the hardest life lesson you have had to learn?

The hardest life lesson that i have ever learned and still learning it is the lesson of accepting. It is just hard to accept a lot of thing's in daily life that you have to get over it and move on with it. Like what you have put into an example, love that it is not a forever thing, accepting of what you have now and think of what you can do to enhance your profit, accepting that bad things happen and that you have to move on and deal with it, and believing that there is always a rainbow to every tedious rain that comes into your life. Oh and don't for get the pot of gold too. ^_~

How to let my Pop die when he wanted to... to realize that, even though he loved me, he couldn't stay. I was with him for the last year of his life and actually lived with him for the last 3 months. It was exhausting and intense, but he helped me through it. I will always miss him, but he doesn't have to suffer anymore just to keep me or anyone else happy. WTG, Pop!

The hardest lesson for me was that the best lessons are not learnt from books, they are learnt by doing, experimenting, working with the hand. However intelligent you are in comprehending however abstract an idea, it is by doing, building, making that you learn what is worth learning. Nothing in my life humbled me than this. As for human skills or what are called soft skills, honestly, I did not have much to learn. Like I am very comfortable with the fact that everyone will have to go one day including myself, your dear and near will leave you one day. That you are not the all important fellow in the world, anyone is as fit to replace you, all these were digested effortlessly by me and I give credit to the Vedantic attitude that my Father instilled in me. On the soft skills side I was yet uncomfortable with one thing however: Unpredictability. I wanted people esp those with whom we have to be closely connected to be NOT UNPREDICTABLE.This has given me the one and only shock on the soft skills learning side. My wife is so unpredictable, that I kept having bouts of hyper acidity, that kept degenerating to ulcers, migraines. I was always on tenterhooks as to what was going to be her stand on anything that mattered. Over a period of time I learned much to my discomfiture that life-skills training in every home is not the same. I envied everybody's predictable and drab lives. I must my conjugal life was one of the most interesting and enriching though. But emotionally it has left me so drained and close to God that spiritual exaltation seems just round the corner for me.

Hardest thing in life to learn and accept is that you are not irreplaceable. No matter how good you are in your field of work and if you leave the office or what ever your working place would still work smoothly and someone would take over your place and you might be missed but it is not that all work would stop if you are not there to look after. Same is in life. If you are no more ( as all of us must have lost a near and dear person may be it grandpa or young friend) it might leave a empty space in the life of very near and dear ones for some time and with time you are missed less and less. This is most difficult lesson in my life that though i try to be best there ever was anyone but i am not irreplaceable.