The Best Funny Life Lessons
After spending my time on this planet, I’ve come to learn a few funny life lessons. Most of it has come from doing things the wrong way, only to find that I didn’t do it wrong, just my way. Life is one long running joke, and if you don’t take it with a sense of humor you are going to miss the punch line. Here is small collection of some funny life lessons I’ve learned about work, relationships, and dogs.
Doing Things Your Way Pays Off In The Long Run
I’m not advocating being stubborn or bullish, but sticking to your guns about what you want from life is a must if you ever plan on being happy. Doing what others want you to do will help in the short term (promotions and raises), but if you want true success you have to play by your own rules.
I learned this funny life lesson after losing my job. After being laid off from my IT job, I was having an extremely hard time finding another job. My whole life I had done what other people had told me to do, and now I was paying the price for it. There was no plan for figuring out what to do on my own after there was no one to tell me what to do, and I couldn’t find a new master to serve. Spending a few months floundering can lead to some new lows in life, and the only thing it felt like I had left was my sense of humor. I started a website that was full of jokes about how rough unemployed life was, which turned out to be a hit and was getting a massive amount of traffic from all over the web. From there I gained the confidence to start moving again, drafting my own script for my life. Long story short, I never went back to IT and am never going to work in an office again. It’s my game, by my rules.
Making A Living Is Not The Same As Making A Life
When planning a future, either by yourself or with your significant other, your career plays a major part in your plans. People spend a lot of time working, or stressing and thinking about their jobs, and this frequently gets in the way of the life that was originally planned out. No one spends their youth dreaming about spending their lives in the office, yet most of us do. It took me getting out of one to realize this, and to be able to reflect upon it.
Your life is your friends, family, dreams, and aspirations, not budgets, deadlines, and quotas. Make time for your life, or making a living will prevent you from doing it.
We Can Say The Same Thing, But I Can Still Be Wrong
While my wife and I don’t argue very often, when we do it’s usually about things of little importance. The semantics of our conversation usually spark the argument, and both of us end up arguing the same point. I know that we can’t be the only couple that this happens to, so what I’ve learned is that it’s more important to concede than it is to push on for the sake of winning an argument.
Learning to step back and realize that there are fights worth fighting, and others that are better to lose can help keep the peace between you and your spouse.
Marriage Is Friendship First
I have a great marriage, but it didn’t end up like this because of good fortune. Taking time to make sure that your significant other is also your best friend makes every aspect of a marriage much easier. When you share the same view points, goals, and aspirations all decision making is incredibly easier.
The easiest way to judge your friendship is how you feel after a long period of time together, like after a vacation. We had spent a week on a road trip, and after the third day we were at each other’s throats. Once we made it back home (and started talking again) we realized that something had to be done to improve our situation. It took us about a year of sharing thoughts, feelings, and emotions with one another, as well as spending more time together to get us both to the point where we can be content spending the rest of our lives together.
Love Through Thick And Thin
I grew up with dogs in the house, but it wasn’t until a couple years ago that I finally started to understand them. While going through a rough patch at my old job and with my wife (see previous paragraph) I wasn’t spending the kind of time with the dogs that I should. There was a night where one of my dogs worked his way into the house while we were sleeping, and instead of rummaging through the garbage he came into bed and cuddled up right next to me and I let him sleep there with me the entire night. He didn’t care what I was going through, he loved me – no matter what.
Through hard times, those who you love are going to be there for you. Just remember to be receptive and reciprocate when the time is right.
The key to learning lessons throughout life is keep your eyes open and interpret any messages that might be coming at you. Everything around you is constantly sending you signals, from the dirty windows that want to be cleaned, to your wife not talking to you the same way that she used to. You have to figure out what meaning there is these messages and adjust your life to make the most of them. We aren’t on a predetermined path from the womb to the grave, you can go in any direction that you want and improve your life however you want to.
This post was originally published, in a somewhat different form, on Funny Quotes about Life, in 2009.
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