The Lessons Learned or Level Up 2

Emma Kind
Objective DilEmma
Published in
3 min readFeb 10, 2020

Let me tell you a secret.

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Are you a winner today or a loser?

Let me tell you a secret. Or, maybe it’s not a secret, but many of you just ignore this fact. You’re all going to die someday.

“Why so negative?” — you would ask.

Life is not a video game where you die and get a new chance to try. This life is the only one you’ve got.

When your time comes, will you be ready to go?

Life is unpredictable and full of surprises, both good and bad. Every time you think you control everything, something happens and changes it.

And you grow. You level up. That’s how it is, that’s how it should be.

Trying to keep everything you love or want? You can’t. Just deal with it. You just stand and watch how it slips through your fingers. You have to move on because there’s nothing you can do about it.

Feelings are like quicksand. The more you struggle, the faster you drown.

You can’t escape from the games that people play. Even when you try to hide from them. They always find you and drag you back. It’s like playing hide-and-seek, and the only one that hides is you. Lost in the moment, found in eternity.

Being invisible in the crowd and watching everything from aside: they can’t see you, but you can see them. You can see everything very clearly.

What’s the point in understanding when all you can do is watch and feel powerless.

You feel, you understand, you learn your lesson.

You are nor a winner. You are not a loser. You are a learner.

Sometimes the price is too high for a lesson. But it’s the only way to learn it. You have to lose what’s precious to gain something more valuable. Maybe this is how we lie to ourselves.

Even when you can’t understand what’s happening, even when you’re lost, there’s always a way out. You never stop moving forward.

Life is anything, everything, something, and nothing at the same time. Life never stops.

Life is around you, inside you, and about you.

Are you a winner today? Are you a loser? It doesn’t matter. In this game of life, nobody wins.

One day it ends. One day there will be no you. Or, you will be but somewhere else, not here. If you live, you die. It’s the only law that has no exceptions.

I’m not telling this to scare you. This is the truth we have to accept. In every ending, there’s a new beginning. In every death, there’s a new life. Make sure that you really live before you die.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde

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