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What are some of the dark lessons that life showed you?

  No one is happy with your success, except your family. 2. Love is a myth. Without reason, no one is your friend. 3. The only people that love you without any expectations are your parents. 4. Everyone has a role in your life and when their role ends, they will leave you. So be strong. 5. Money has a strong place in everyone's life, but unfortunately, it cannot buy you everything. 6. Laugh with everyone, but trust none. 7. People say speak the truth but in reality, no one wants to hear it. 8. No one gives a shit about what you think or what you do, it is only your perspective that they think about you. 9. Expectation always hurts. So expect less or no expectation from others. 10. Never ever sacrifice your happiness for someone else. 11. The fewer people you chill with, the less bullshit you deal with. 12. Living a simple life gives you more time for important things. 13. The sooner you learn to live alone, the sooner you understand the meaning of life. You are your best friend. 14...

What are the best ways to live in the old age when nobody wants to take care of you?

  Survey after survey shows, the greatest fear for someone in old age is being alone and having your life slowly fall apart. It is a terrifying prospect that until you get there, you want to avoid even thinking about it. Every family has an excuse, there is no end to the reasons why you can’t take care of Mom, or god forbid Dad as Dads are always way more difficult and all but useless once they are no longer earning money and have few home skills other than having a drink at ‘5 o’clock somewhere’, but the reality is it is a global problem now, not even the Chinese or Japanese or other Asians are taking care of their parents any more. Everyone is ‘outsourcing’ the care of their loved ones and it is a frightening prospect to say the least to find yourself increasingly unable to take care of yourself in a very expensive landscape with diminishing funds. And let’s face it, everyone has diminishing resources especially the longer you live. Unfortunately, we all must face the prospect of...