Avoid...

Things to avoid in order to maintain your sanity and happiness - From Anon.

 Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

 Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Believing that your parents are always right.

 Criticizing anyone who tries to be different.

 Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

 Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.


Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.

 Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

 Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.


Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is. 
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 Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.
 Believing that other people are always better than you--better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent--and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

 Swearing when in heavy traffic.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

 Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

 Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

 Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

  Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

 Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.