This year has been a tumultuous year for me, but through the grace of God I've managed to come out of it all relatively unscathed and with a few lessons learned- some learned the hard way.
Oprah ends each edition of her 'O Magazine' with the last-page article entitled "What I know for Sure". Reading the last issue, it made me think about what I know for sure (or what I THINK I know for sure).
So Far, I have learned that:
1- I believe in LOVE. I just haven’t really experienced it yet.
2- Power and Beauty are the constructs around which everything is based.
3- Bullshit, no matter how pretty it’s packaged, no matter how many polysyllabic words surround it, no matter how many people tout it as dogma, no matter how it has withstood the test of time, is still- at its core- BULLSHIT!
4- Sooner or later, everyone-EVERYONE- will disappoint you at some point and on some level. And there will come a time when you will also disappoint yourself
5- YOU have the power to dictate the way you are going to be treated.
6- If you surround yourself with people unlike yourself who have their own talents, aspirations, and vision, YOU grow more.
7- Skin color will ALWAYS matter- even to those who lecture that it shouldn’t.
8- Even those that should know better, don’t always know better.
9- Ms. Mitchell was right; you don’t know what u got ‘til its gone.
10-The MOST important lessons you can teach a child are that they are BEAUTIFUL and that they MATTER!!!
11-Most of the time, people show you EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE within the first 5 minutes of you meeting them. You just have to keep your eyes open in those first 5 minutes.
12-There are always THREE sides to any story.
13-When you LEAST expect it, expect it.
14-No one can predict what is going to happen in life. If that were the case, we would all have crystal balls and either unlimited happiness or unfathomable sadness. So why not try to have unlimited happiness?
15-You CANNOT move forward in life looking into the rear-view mirror.
What do YOU know for sure?
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