Life Lessons

Life lessons suck. Oh sure, in the long run they build you into a stronger person, but at the time you're learning one, the fact that you'll come through it stronger is only a wisp of silver barely tracing a very ugly black cloud. So thin a wisp in fact, that lots of folks don't ever see it.

This is because most life lessons are learned the hard way. It's that instant regret that does it, that memory that rears it's head to remind you that you should've known better. Somebody somewhere tried to tell you, or show you, but you didn't heed. These are the lessons that leave you tasting your tangy toes, or bruised from the kick of your own boot to your behind, or stinging from the backlash of your own sharp tongue...often all three at the same time.

And when you remember the incident of your learning, you cringe with shame on the inside, because it still stings a little. But...whatever it was you did...I betcha don't do it again.