Lessons from my school of life
Lessons for my (grand)children
from my school of life
I don't have a kid of my own yet (and I'm not sure if I'll still have my own) but I am blessed with many nephews and nieces that I treat as my own. I guessed it is still qualified right? Anyway having a kid doesn't only mean you produced it, it could also mean that some kids out there are treating you like a family, or maybe respecting you like their own parents.
Anyway, let me go back to the real topic. There are a few lessons that I learned from my school of life, lessons that I want to impart not only to my future children or grandchildren (oh well, let's just pretend I'll have them soon since no one can predict what will happen next, LOL) but even to my nieces and nephews as well.
Since this is from my school of life, let me start writing my lesson plan.
Love the people around you but don't forget to love yourself more
While we are growing we are always thought to love the people that are around us, to respect people around us, it's always about the people around us. They never told us that it is also important to love ourselves more. And this time, I want to change it, I want them to learn that it is important to love themselves more. I want them to learn the importance of loving themselves first. I want them to learn that loving themselves and prioritizing themselves is not selfishness and that it is something that they can depend on when their support system is gone. I want them to learn to love themselves to be able to protect themselves from the people around them because not all the people around us love us as much as we love them.
I want them to learn how to identify the people who really care for them.
That will be the first on my lesson plan from my school of life. The bitter truth of life that wasn't shared with us while we are young.
Enjoy life to the fullest but don't forget to save.
I learned this the hard way...
I just enjoyed my life without saving thinking that I can earn it again and again. I didn't think about tomorrow thinking that my parents will always be there for me. I forgot that life has an expiration date and the time will come when I have to think about myself and that I have to stand on my own. I never learned the importance of savings until the time when my mom was gone. Yes, it is important to live our life to the fullest but it is also important to think about tomorrow. And I'll always instill this in the kids around me, whether they are my kids or not, I'll teach them the importance of having some for the future. I'll always teach and remind them of the importance of having money in their pocket, and that they have to spend wisely. It is ok to spend on the things that you like but it is more important to spend on the things that you need. And that you can still enjoy life even if you are saving.
Those two are the hardest lessons that I learned in life that I want to impart and instill in the kids around me, whether they are my kids or not, I want them to learn them while they are young. Of course, I want them to enjoy life to the fullest but I also want them to be responsible enough to think about their future as early as they can. Enjoying life also means saving for the future, it is not all about living in the now, it is about living in the now and planning for the future too. It's hard to enjoy life when your pocket is empty and it is also hard to enjoy life when you don't love yourself enough.
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November theme: Lessons for my (grand)children from my school of life
As they say, lesson's learned from life are the best lesson that we can share with anyone. I hope I also impart to you the lessons that I learned.
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Yes we shouldn’t forget to save, you teaches good lessons to your next generation as you learn from your life experiences. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for dropping @shohana1 ... as they said.. its the best lessons you'll ever learn :)
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"Magtira para sa sarili" - - we cannot give what we do not have. Self love and self preservation so we could give more.
Yes to savings. Sad to say financial literacy was not an important aspect that was imparted to us early on that we needed to learn it the hard way. And yes, let "saving" be part of our children's vocabulary and life in general.
yep.. magtira para sa sarili is important. i was raised to love so much the people around me that I always end up empty and broken.
yep.. yes to saving and to spending and using our money wisely
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Without a doubt, loving yourself is a very important lesson to pass on to your children.
Thanks for dropping by @devania .. yes a lesson that we shouldn't forget to pass on :)
Yep, love yourself first... definitely an important fact of life; without that nothing works. The part about the money i gave up twelve years ago now... no idea where life will take me, though i do not save a dime. I got another future in mind, if ever that will be life will show us... 😬
Yet, i love the yet
you know, life always works in mysterious ways, I guessed that is why even if we don't save enough we still survive... It feels like life itself is saving some for us ... so whenever we need something.. life gives it to us. :)
That IS a fact of Life for sure... Life ALWAYS has a plan!
hahaha yep.. no matter how much we plan for it... life always have its own plan for us :)
That's right... the reason i do not plan/project anymore. I choose what life is proposing, and as you said it: Life has always something saved for us. :D
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I have always heard of the lesson of loving other but over time I have understood it is important to love one ownself and this is something I wouldslso want to teach my kids.
Saving is another important aspect we shoud teach our kids. Time doesn't always remains same. Our strengths do not remain on peak all the life. We should save for the time we won't be ableto produce as much as we do today..
Nice lessons to learn here. Certai ly your nephew and niece are like your kids and so you can teach them things that are beneficial for them.
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Hi sis! Yep, been busy outside the cryptoverse. And thank you for dropping by.
I know it is important to love others but loving oneself is more important than the people around us.
And yes.. let's instill it to the next generation and let's teach them early in life the importance of it. :)
True. I have young kids, so it's about time teaching them. Thanks for this reminder
Loving ourselves first is something most of us are not accustomed to and we tend to put ourselves last so it is a must for the younger generation to learn this and saving too❤
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yep, that was taught to us while we are growing up to think of others first before ourselves when it should be ourselves first. :)
thanks sis!
Yeah, so it's nice that you are teaching your kids that they should prioritize their selves first.
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Indeed, love yourself first then the right now will follow
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