Day 3

Third lesson learnt: No matter what you do, life won't owe you anything.

Many people say that "You always get what you give", maybe just to feel better about the apparently useless efforts they've made to achieve something. And what I can say from my experience this year is that it's not actually true. What happened to me (as to many others, I imagine) was that I fell in love with a girl. Not any girl, but my best friend. But, as you can imagine (otherwise I wouldn't probably be writing this), she didn't feel the same way about me. And that's not the worst part of it. She refused to be with me because she fell in love with her ex. The same ex she'd been a year complaining about and critisizing.
I was completely brokenhearted. You could say that I'm only telling this lesson because I had a bad time, but that with time I'll find the one, and all this kind of things. Well, maybe, but nobody can guarantee it. Don't get me wrong, this lesson has something positive: I felt bad in part because I thought that life owed me something for having been really nice to her for many years, like if I had more chances because of that. Obviously, nobody owed me anything, and now I know that.
If you're nice to someone or make good actions, do not expect something back. Do it just because you enjoy it, or because you like seeing others happy. Otherwise, you may be disappointed.