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20 Life Lessons I Learnt by 20

1: Be good at keeping secrets.

2: Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

3: When you expect less, you get more.

4: You will get served the exact opposite of what you'd hoped for but in the end, you'll realize that that is all you ever wanted.

5: Speak well about someone behind their back, or just don't talk.

6: Life, is not fair. It never will be. You will run out of luck when you most need it & hard work doesn't always pay off.

7: Possess the ability to find humor in even the tiniest of incidents during hard times.

8: You don't necessarily have to grab every opportunity that comes your way. It's okay to be picky.

9: Prioritize people. Your time is too precious to spend on the ones that don't really matter.

10: You can always do & apologize after, rather than ask before. But the same theory doesn't apply with words, it's always best to think through instead of having a shoe in mouth.

11: Neither success nor failure should be taken to the head since none out of the two lasts very long.

12: You don't have to explain everything you do & everything you are. No one & I mean no one, except you will know & understand the struggle you've been through. Learn to be your own support system.

13: Most of our problems are created in the head. So the best approach to take is to see even the worse of situations in a positive light.

14: Be cordial to everyone. Most of the times, the people you despise are the ones that may help you out.

15: Learn from other's mistakes.

16: Stop getting intimidated by the presence of someone you think is perfect. There is always at least one aspect you would be better at than that person.

17: We fight our present situations by imagining a better future which in turn might be worse. The only solution is to make the best out of what is currently available.

18: Relationships are very similar to our clothes. Once stained, it only gets better with a lot of effort or remains so forever.

19: Everyone is a little quirky. Celebrate each other's quirkiness instead of judging it.

20: Be unapologetic if you're called self obsessed.

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