Important Life Lessons
You'll Know You're a "Real" Adult When You Accept These 25 Truths

I'm a firm believer in tough love. When it comes to figuring things out, I take the "sink or swim" approach, and even if it seems a bit harsh at the time, in the long run it usually means people come out better and stronger for it. There are some valuable life lessons to be learned that are easier pills to swallow than others — here are some brutally honest ones.
1 Life's Tough, Get a Helmet

2 If You Want to Play Hard, You Really Do Have to Work Hard

3 If You F*ck Up, It's Your Responsibility to Fix It

4 Your Driver's License Photo Will Never, Ever Be Flattering

5 Sometimes You Have to Give People the Benefit of the Doubt

6 You Have Control Over Your Life

7 Making Compromises is a Good Thing. Compromising Yourself Is Not

8 Success Is Just About Perception

9 Some People Are Just Big Assh*les

10 School Doesn't Come Close to Teaching You Everything You Need to Know

11 Love Isn't Just a Feeling, It's a Choice You Make

12 You Can't Help Someone Who Doesn't Want to be Helped

13 Money Won't Solve Your Problems

14 You Are Not the Center of the Universe

15 Things Are Rarely as Cool as They Seem

16 You Can't Make Everybody Happy

17 Sometimes You Have to Put Yourself First

18 Jealousy is a Huge Waste of Time

19 Change is Good Sometimes

20 You're Not Getting Any Younger

21 Sometimes You Just Don't Have the Answers

22 It's Never Too Late to Change

23 Even If You Have "More Important" Things to Do, You NEED to Get a Good Night's Sleep

24 You Can't Have It All

25 The Only Time You Should Look Back is to See Just How Far You've Come
