So sidewalker_Principle noted that we all seem to be an older, fairly successful gang here. What's the one best life lesson you've learned?

[–] InnocentBystander 2 points (+3|-1)

1 - Live for today, not tomorrow. I don't mean any of that yolo crap.
What I mean is make your time count starting from now, not some point you've got planned in the future. That point will probably never come. And that may not be a bad thing. Life has a way of taking unexpected turns. Some bad, some good.

2 - learn to be content with reasonable comfort.
Ambition is a vice, not a virtue.

3 - Nothing is black or white. Everything is a shade of grey. Absolutes exist only in abstract.

[–] chmod [OP] 4 points (+4|-0)

I disagree with your number 2 and 3. Ambition is healthy and almost everything is black and white.

[–] InnocentBystander 5 points (+5|-0)

In my experience there has been an inverse relation between ambition, and happiness.
Success doesn't even seem to matter much. Highly ambitious people can (by definition) never be happy with what they've got.
The desire for 'more' once your needs are met has never resulted in a benefit, that I've seen.

almost everything is black and white.

I don't even know what to make of that statement. I'm having a hard time believing you mean that in the way it seems.
Are you saying you think everything is a simple right or wrong, and it is clear which is which?
Because that's crazy-talk, and you don't seem crazy. So what do you mean?

So sidewalker_Principle noted that we all seem to be an older, fairly successful gang here. What's the one best life lesson you've learned?

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