What life lesson took you years to learn?
By cuttyrish
@cuttyrish (3264)
United States
March 19, 2026 1:39am CST
Life has a way of teaching us lessons, but sometimes those lessons don’t come easy. There are things we only truly understand after going through challenges, mistakes, or even regrets.
For me, one lesson that took time to learn is that not everything is under our control, and that’s okay. I used to stress over situations I couldn’t change, but over time I realized that focusing on what I can control makes life a lot less overwhelming.
If i have a small project due before, missing things, i used to stress about it. My mom was alive back then, so when she was gone, i needed to stand on my own, solve things on my own.
It’s interesting how some lessons only make sense after years of experience.
What about you? What is a life lesson that took you years to fully understand?
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4 responses
@AmbiePam (121730)
• United States
19 Mar
I’m not really sure. I guess not to always take the Bible literally. Obviously, parables are parables, but when my mom got dementia at the age of 46 I remembered the verse about having the faith of a mustard seed. I didn’t consciously make the decision, but somewhere along the line I thought if I had enough faith my mom wouldn’t get any worse. Well, obviously, she got much worse. I thought if I had had more faith she would have done better. It was only years later I came to realize how messed up my thinking was.
@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
19 May
she so young to have dementia. I am 36, and what are the signs of this?
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@AmbiePam (121730)
• United States
19 May
@cuttyrish She would do things like leave her keys in the fridge, and she used to be extremely good at Scrabble until one night she accused my dad of changing the rules. She started getting weird headaches. Her short term memory started getting bad, mood swings, and she’d forget words. Sometimes she’d fixate on things, and be unable to let them go.
@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
19 May
@AmbiePam Oh my god, i am forgetting words, terms, this past few weeks, and had a headaches, my top head has nosensesation, but if touch my eyebrow, i feel like someone is fulling my hair
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@luisadannointed (11885)
• Philippines
15 May
Value time, do everything you can to improve your skills and do everything you can to multiply what you have.
@cuttyrish (3264)
• United States
19 May
hard to regret what you did not do, better keep the best of everything
@LindaOHio (223476)
• United States
20 Mar
Don't sweat the small stuff. I'm still learning that lesson.
