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28 life lessons I’ve learned in 28 years

Today I turned 28. The years have been mix of feelings and a roller coaster of emotions. I won’t say the years were kind, but they were definitely meaningful. So to mark this special day, I’m sharing with you 28 life lessons I’ve learned over 28 years.

• Studies are important, but you will remember all the stupid things you did in your school life rather than the days you were cramming for tests and studying for exam.
• Work hard now and enjoy later is a lie teachers, parents and a lot of others will tell you so you can just work hard. Because by the time you will truly enjoy, you might be too old.
• You need to be decisive on your own, the world will want you to stand out yet fit in.
• Sharma Ji ka beta and Sharma Ji deserve a hard slap on the face
• College is the place where everlasting memories will be made, from ragging (oops) to the bunks, falling head over heels for someone, heartbreaks, parties and everything else.
• A close friend, an endless conversation and a cup of coffee works better to cure depression than a counseling session.
• Your parents are the most important people in your life, even though you had to bear the torture of the embarrassing photo sessions, which they now hold as a weapon to blackmail you.
• You need to try everything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, at least once in life.
• As an addition, don’t try anything so stupid that you end up hurt or dead.
• Never ever waste food, the food that you throw away took months of work by hundreds of people, not to mention the actual food that goes waste is more than the requirement of all the people that suffer from malnutrition
• Every choice you make in life is the right choice as long as you don’t have any regrets.
• Don’t ever bother about what others will think of you, the fact is those people are too busy thinking about themselves.
• At least once in your life backpack alone for some time. It will change your perspective on life
• Whenever you go anywhere travel as a nomad and not a tourist.
• A long ride alone or with one friend is what goes for meditation in the 21st century
• Everyone on facebook is lying through their teeth. The perfect happy photos you see there are not their actual lives. It is what they want you to think.
• People had lives before social media, not getting enough likes on your pics and posts is not something to be sad about.
• Trolls exist in real and online, you can’t ignore them, best way to go about is to shame them by hurting their ego.
• It pays to learn more than one language. Definitely pick one which will interest you or where you plan to go.
• You may talk about travelling the world, but its all for naught if you haven’t even explored your own city.
• Take time out for family, those files at the office can wait but that family event that you missed is gone now and all you have are photos and stories of other people.
• Booze, friends and a beach is what passes for group therapy these days.
• Don’t ever work too hard for the company, the company won’t be there in your hard times.
• Health is the most important factor in life, no other thing should take priority over it.
• No matter how hard things maybe looking for you right now, it won’t stay that way, neither will you remain happy forever. As a very close friend tells me, “all in good time”
• Learn to fight, everyone needs to know how to throw a good punch.
• Try removing your birthday from Facebook just once, the ones who truly remember are your true friends which will be 4–5 out of the 500 you have :-P .
• No matter how much of a deep shit you’re in, Chocolate ice cream can make you forget all of that, even if it is for a few minutes

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