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Phrase: Live and learn
If you are a regular reader of these posts, you already know about the school of hard knocks. Well, live and learn is Hard Knocks for Dummies.
We can’t attain all our knowledge from books.
Sometimes we can only learn from experience.
It’s rare to find Mr. or Mrs. Right the first time you date someone.
Most of us have dated an a**hole or weirdo or two before we were able to determine our ‘type.’
We all have to live and learn, even when it comes to matters of the heart.
Some women like to find a diamond in the rough and polish it to their preferences, while others want to get one off the shelf already polished but choose their own setting.
Either way, you need to have something of quality to work with.
Life, in general, actually, is a process of trial and error.
As they say, life doesn’t come with a handbook.
God, I wish it did, though!
On second thought, if there were a handbook for life, no one would read it.
Young people, and we were all young once, tend to think they have all the answers.
If they only knew how much they didn’t know, they’d be lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did.
The only people who’d read Life’s Handbook were the ones who had already lived and learned.
Then they’d only read it to criticize it.
Young people prefer living to reading.
It’s been the truth for the entire existence of the human race.
We all have to live and learn.
It makes living fun.
That’s why we all want to be twenty-two, young and foolish again.
Books are for old farts.
Living is for the young and foolish.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 85.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.