...so you find yourself walking down a long path of hurt and deep Regret...

So you are walking down that long cold path of hurt and deep regret. What did you do to get there? Where did you go wrong? What could you have done differently given the circumstances? These are questions that are silently asked when you feel hurt or wronged in some way. Well quite frankly, it went wrong when you ignored conventional wisdom and did things that defied common sense. You didn't listen to that gut feeling that you had when you where making bad decisions.

The question you need to ask yourself is not how did you get to this place or what went wrong, but did you learn from your mistakes? If the answer is yes, that's wonderful. Life should be well for you and you are growing as an individual. If the answer is no, you will find yourself repeating the same mistakes over and over again until you do. It's not a pleasant experience and you may not think that you are repeating the same things. However, if you step back and look at past situations and are completely honest with yourself, you will see that you have. It's completely fine to make mistakes in life, but its not okay if you don't learn and grow from them.

The lesson here is that you should always learn something from your mistakes. For instance if you keep finding yourself in painful situations with people, there is obviously something that you are not learning. Honestly, if you are constantly being hurt by people, it's because you allowed it to happen. Face the facts. People can only do to you what you allow them to...

...people can really disappoint You

People can really disappoint you. Sometimes you find yourself in situations where you really want to just hurt someone because they let you down. The thing to learn is that you have to stop putting yourself in situations that allow people to catastrophically disappoint you. It's very easy to find your feelings mangled on the side of the road because someone did or said something stupid that drove you to the point of wanting to cause them physical harm. However, its even easier to control the elements that contribute to making you feel this way in the first place.

For instance, deep down you already know that keeping the company of certain people isn't a good thing, whether you admit to it or not. Instead of ridding yourself of the problem by releasing these cancerous people from your life, you try your hardest to rationalize keeping them in your life. If certain people are a counterproductive force in your life that keeps you from being happy, moving forward, or have become some sort of hindrance in any way, they simply need to be removed. These people are in your life for no apparent reason other than to hold you back in some way, inconvenience you, cause you pain, or embarrassment like a pimple that suddenly rises up on your head right before picture day. The thing we do as rationally irrational people is try to keep people around that don't need to be in our lives. It is not a good thing to do, and more than likely something bad will happen if you keep them around. You will find that for the sake of making yourself a better person, it's best to let unproductive, negative, hindering people leave your life. If you don't, you might find yourself walking down a long path of hurt and deep regret...

...don't hang with Stupid

Don't hang with stupid. Stupid makes you look bad. You already know that Stupid is admittedly just that, and so does everyone else. So why do you keep subjecting yourself to the stupidity of Mr or Ms. Stupid? Is it because you want to fit in? Are you doing it to gain something in the end? Why are you actually hanging with Stupid?

People hang with Stupid all the time for various reasons but one of the most common explanations is personal gain. You never gain anything from using someone. Usually the dumber of the pair will drag you down to his or her level. Even though this is so true, people choose to hang with Stupid all the time thinking they are gaining something, when they are actually losing. Like I said before, Stupid is admittedly stupid and everyone knows that, including you. The thing that makes hanging with Stupid so bad is the fact that you continue to do so despite knowing that this isn't a smart decision, and that Stupid thinks you are dumb for doing so. How do you fix this? Stop hanging with Stupid. If you keep hanging with them, you will find out real quick that people will disapoint you...