The Lessons I’ve Learned Living in the 3rd World
2 min readJul 29, 2022
- Learn or get left behind.
- Eat or get eaten.
- Appreciate the day as you may not live to wake up to the next.
- If you do not learn from your mistakes, you may not have the opportunity to rectify them.
- Life is hard. It’s also beautiful and can be lived softly.
- Ingenuity is synonymous with engineering of multiple disciplines, especially in terms of survival.
- All competitors, regardless of effort, are not winners.
- Eternal father needs to bless the land to keep away EVIL powers.
- The slowest runner most likely won’t finish the race.
- Time is not just going, but it’s going twice as fast for the individuals experiencing life as an individual’s life/lifespan is unknown and uncharted until its departure time.
- If we knew as much as we thought we did, life wouldn’t be such a mystery after thousands of years.
- Be humble or be humbled by the challenge of unexpected and, in some cases, unimaginable challenges.
- Life’s too short to not stand tall with confidence, appreciation, and laughter based on the seriousness of the inevitable.
- Be accountable or prepare to suffer more than necessary.
- Learn to observe or be taken advantage of, as there is always someone smarter.
- File good, bad, and ugly experiences into one folder called “experience” as there are no other notable categories.
- Live fast. Regret will be in direct proportion to the speed of living.
- Work hard while being smart because nothing can work without understanding how to work.
- Learn to make choices or choices will be made on your behalf.
- Be a leader or follower, depending on your emotional intelligence.
- Learn to disagree by allowing things to be as they are.
- Being a small island does not mean a global impact can’t be made daily.
