What is something you learned late in life, but wish you knew earlier?

Life is one big lesson. Take the good with the bad.

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• Opinions: What others think of me is none of my business. It use to consume my thoughts of what others think of me, and it still does to a certain degree. I’m learning to separate the “healthy” validation every human needs and the “unhealthy” validation that will lead you down the dark hole of people pleasing. In return, it will keep the wrong, very toxic people in my life.
• Health: When I was young, there was not a care in the world to what I was doing to my body. The ramifications come back later in life. Where bad choices and instant gratification can’t be reversed.
• Love: I learned loving the wrong person is detrimental to my health. I spent years chasing someone that at her core, could careless about me. I was just another number in her “book.” If she needs a pick me up she responds, if not, she’s out chasing other distractions that take less effort and easier to fool.
• Money: I spent years chasing it. And many times I “caught” it, but it didn’t make me any happier. If anything, it made it easier to live a life of self deprecation and self sabotage.
• Relationships: With every failed relationship there is a lesson. The most painful one is the biggest lesson if you are aware.