Life lessons you learned from the least likely places

[Jabberwock xeno]

See title.

For me, it was from Star wars episode one.

To be exact, it was the scene when Obi-wan, Qui-gon, and Jar Jar got chased by sequential bigger sea life, each eating the one before, whe qui gon remarks: "There's always a bigger fish".

I took this heart. It's a rather good mantra to understand: There's almost always someone faster, or stonger, or bigger, or otherwise superior to you somewhere.

Yours?

 

[Irridium]

I've had my views on morality and good/evil shaken by KOROR II, but thats probably the closest thing I can think of that relates to this thread.

 

[Booze Zombie]

"Who's more foolish - the fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Sounds like the lesson I just learnt in real life. Still, better late than never (for me).

 

[Orcalink]

Age 12 I went on holiday with a friend of mine and his family to centerparks. One morning I went for a 6am bike ride (as you do) and after about a half hour crashed my bike and flew head first into a thorn bush to the point it was literally just my feet sticking out about a meter off the ground. I lay suspended there for a while (my guess 10-15 mins) calling out for help, until I realised that only I could get myself out. I scrambled out and got myself back to the chalet in time to clean off the blood so no one really noticed, I never told my friend or his family and have taken to heart from then that it's better to get on and do something yourself than wait for help from others that may never come

 

[emeraldrafael]

Stephen King's Dark Tower Series taught me a ton of stuff. I took that idea of Ka, the gunslinger's mantra, and other things, as well as my view on religion, from it.