The 5 Most Devastating Lessons I Learnt & How They Made Me Powerful kathryns-blog.com /lessons-made-me-powerful/ Kathryn Don’t you dare thank someone for putting you through hell. I learnt some very hard lessons, and it wasn’t the people who unleashed these things on me that I thank for who I turned into. No. I thank my friends, family for their support, and myself for having the willpower to rise above it all. A lot of these lessons came about because I believed some silly myths. It’s so important to be a good person, but you have to be real about the world. We don’t live in Utopia. I want to break some of these myths for you, and they were based on some really crappy myths I believed as a child. Hopefully get some insight into your own life. Let me share with you: The 5 Most Devastating Lessons I Learnt & How They Made Me Powerful . Keep your eye’s peeled, your heart guarded, and your mind strong.
Lesson 1. When You Give – Expect Nothing Back. And you shouldn’t expect anything back anyway, otherwise it’s not a true gift. But not everyone appreciates what you do. It could be because they are too busy to notice or they just genuinely don’t care about your effort. Either way, if you want some peace in your life, let a gift be a gift and expect nothing back. What I learnt is that if you let go of this idea of getting something back, it actually can be very liberating. When you let go, and give freely, it can create a happiness inside of you that doesn’t need the affirmations of others. It sort of “brings you to the next level” if you know what I mean.
Lesson 2. Don’t Just Look At The Good In People It sounds nice, but it’s not practical and you will get hurt and/or used eventually. Even Adolf Hitler had his good points, when he wasn’t slaughtering millions of innocent people. I hear he was excellent with animals. I have learnt that trying to pretend someone is good when they are not is just futile. You won’t help them in the long run. You can’t change them, not permanently anyway. True love (in a non-romantic sense) is accepting a person exactly as they are, with their flaws and all. If you are pretending someone is really a “Dark Knight”, but they are actually a “Joker” (Batman jokes) then you are going to end up with a lot of carnage.
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