Life Lessons

Life is full of lessons. Some we want to learn and eagerly look to master; others creep up on us when we least expect a lesson on life.

I have been thinking about lessons I have learned and wondered if I could come up with one lesson for each decade of my life.

The first lesson I learned during my first ten years of life came during a winter storm in northeastern Ohio. Everything was frozen over; snow was up to our waist and school had been canceled for a week. This was the two mile walk to school, uphill both ways era. Metal pipes formed the banisters leading up to our neighbor's back door. Small little icicles dropped down in orderly form from the banister. My lesson came as I accepted the dare to stick my tongue on the banister in hopes of getting one of icicles. You're way ahead of me so I'll just leave it at that.

During my second decade of life I learned a lesson about relationships. I learned that you could get a boyfriend to bend down and re-tie your untied shoe if you simply asked him. Wow! What power. Funny that six decades later he remembers that incident also, probably because I shouted out to the playground teacher to watch him tie my shoe. Needless to say, we were not boyfriend/girlfriend for too long after that. To this day I accuse that teacher, Mr. Brewster, of talking to Bob and telling him to stick up for himself and let me tie my own dumb shoe (never really liked Mr. Brewster). After that I got slip-on loafers (well you didn't really expect me to tie my own stupid shoe, did you?).

So now I am in my third decade. Harder lessons than the above two were in store but I'll save those for another posting.

And that's what I think about it.