What are the top 5 things you learned this year?

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Start with boredom, and not with bliss. Boredom is a first line of defense; before you can get to the more interesting stuff.

To listen to my gut feeling and not ignoring it. If your gut told you something was up in the first place, it's usually because something was.

That, How Pain Sometimes Brings More Clarity. What i observe in myself is that, whenever life is going good, according to my will, I'm less drawn towards spirituality. It's my personal experience that, the more pleasure people had, the less they see the reality of the human condition. When people have power, they lose their sense of humility. With power, money, fame etc, people become desensitized to suffering. So the point is, tragedy or an unwanted situation can be transformed into great fortune. Sometimes, big hurt can mean big insight.

Started questioning the supremacy of romantic love, and did a little poking around the foundations of its pedestal. Romantic love isn’t always the blessing it’s made out to be. Headlines about crimes of passion—like "Man Kills Lover, Then Self"—show how easily love can turn into hate, jealousy, or bitterness when attachments break. Passions are volatile and unreliable, making them a shaky foundation for true happiness. Undoubtedly, spirituality has helped me put the delights and torments of love into perspective, and to break the illusion of love as the highest of aspirations and most essential of desires. Not that, shunning the pursuit of romance out of fear of unhappy consequences, but surely found a way to ameliorate those consequences.

Ignorance Can Be Bliss, But Only Temporarily. This year, I realized that while ignorance may offer comfort, it often blinds us to the deeper truths of life. Knowledge, though it reveals pain, conflict, and destruction, also provides the tools to rise above these challenges. With wisdom, we gain the clarity to see the beauty beyond the chaos and appreciate life's possibilities.

In this image:

In ignorance — we see the world as an illusion full of wishful thinking.

In knowledge — we see the pain, the conflict, the destruction, the ignorance and the hate.

In wisdom — we appreciate what we have learned, what has been sacrificed on our behalf, and what is possible.

Thankyou for reading!

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