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Honestly life has taught me so many things.   Both good things and bad things. I have exposed myself to so many bad things and even recovered from them. Time is a good teacher. Time also helps in healing at the same time, it also gives us good lessons to learn. In several instances, I have even felt that it would have been great if I had the opportunity to live the same part of my life again rectifying all my mistakes. I'm sure many of us will definitely want to rewrite our life after all the lessons we have taken from our life now. I would like to explain a few things that I really learnt from my life so far. 

Knowledge is beyond textbooks

This is a great lesson that I got from life. Parents usually think that a child will become intelligent if they get good marks and study well. I'm not sure about other countries but this ideology is very famous in India. The great lesson that I was able to learn was that knowledge is beyond textbooks and we are not going to implement anything directly from the text books instead we are just going to implement the experiences that we gained though our learning. 

Purpose of my life

I have had several experiences in my life. Some of the near-death experiences gave me some kind of enlightenment to explore the real purpose of my life. I should have been dead long back. Life gave me two opportunities to live. I almost escaped death in two instances in my life. That made me think a lot about the purpose and what I should be doing with the life I have got. I consider my life as a gift to explore the real purpose and try to attain salvation. I also make sure that I share the experiences and learning that I do with others as well. 

Importance of socializing

Believe it or not, humans are social beings. It is quite rare to see someone who really hates being social. More than 95 % of people who live a human life are dependent on others for their life and they are somehow socially dependent. I appreciate the fact that socializing is very important for human beings. We are not designed to lead an individual life. We have to learn many things from others throughout our life and also we are designed to render our help to other fellow beings. Not just humans but we are also designed to help other living beings as well when we get the opportunity. This is really a great learning that I got from life experiences. 

Handling relationships

I used to be very bad in handling relationships. I'm someone who likes isolation and not very great at handling relationships. I still suck in various aspects related to the relationship. But today I'm not very bad like how I used to be. I'm able to handle some relationship complications by myself. This is something that I gradually learnt from my life. I believe that every individual will undergo a transformation where they get the opportunity to learn how to handle relationships. Relationships create both sweet memories as well as bitter experiences. The beauty of life can be understood only after we balance both the extremes of relationship. 

Value every individual

I live with a principle "Every individual whom you meet in your life will have something to teach you".   I have taken this phrase very series. Even if I find someone not intellectually great, I continue to observe the person in learning something from them. I strongly believe that every individual will have something to teach us. It can either be a good thing or even a bad thing. In case of good things we can directly make use of it and in case of bad things, we can take it as a bad example and be careful when we come across such situations. 

Search should always continue

This is one of the great lesson that I learnt from life. Whatever happens we have to continue with our life. The search for the ultimate truth should always continue. We might attain satisfaction in our life but we may not reach the fulfilled the state. Our intention should always be towards fulfillment. In order to undergo such path, our search should continue always. It need not be necessarily related to spirituality or spirit realization. To make the statement very simple, we can compare it with a bird's situation. For a bird to lead a life, there is a high necessity that it should continue to search to find its prey. Similarly until we identify the truth and even after identifying the truth our search should always continue. This is a great lesson one can learn from life. 

Close your mouth and open your ears

We should always be ready to listen a lot. But by nature people really love to give opinion and speak a lot than listening. For some people listening is not at all easy. This is a great learning that life thought me. I hand out with lots of elderly people and most of the time my mouth will be shut and my ears will always be open. I feel that it has helped me a lot to learn so many things. The elders or even same age people, when they share their personal experiences with us, it is quite valuable. We become experts by listening to them and by not having any necessity to undergo the same situation in our life. The key to success is keeping our ears open to everything and keeping our mouth shut even if we get opportunity to speak. Maybe that is the reason why naturally the ear is always open and mouth has a facility to close. 

I can go on like this forever but I would like to stop till here. I'm sure every individual will have great experiences and learning from their life. Some people really learn very fast by observing good and bad that others experience and some people learn it only when it happens to them. 

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