“Messy people are not evil.”
That was the first statement my daughter made when I asked her for the five top things she learned during her second semester of her freshman year at college.
The rest of her *top five list includes:
- “There are some people who just lie and cheat a lot. Quit trying to change them when they don’t want to change; just let them go.”
- “There are times I’ve been talking about someone to a friend and then I realize, ‘I’m gossiping; I need to go talk to this person directly.’”
- “It’s not that hard to recognize really true friends.”
- “I want to be around people who make me feel special. I want to be that kind of person for others.”
Interesting that her top five learnings had little to do with academics; they had everything to do with knowing herself and relating to others.
What have your top five learnings been over the past three months? Is your learning making a difference to the strength in your life?
*Shared with my daughter’s permission
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