Everything I need to know about life I learned in the 6th grade.

Everything I ever needed to know about life I learned in Mr. Bailey’s 6th grade social studies class.  He was the first teacher I ever had who actually told it like it was.  In his class, he made the rules, and it didn’t matter whether or not they were fair, because after all, “life isn’t fair.”  People lie, people cheat, and people steal.  Bad things happen to good people, and nice guys finish last.  And if you don’t like it, too bad.  Life doesn’t happen the way we want it to.   Life just happens.  Sometimes it works out the way we want, and sometimes it doesn’t. And if we can get rid of our expectations of what life should be, and get over our ideas that life owes us something, then we can handle anything life throws at us, good or bad.  So while it may have taken me 18 some odd years to figure out, I whole heartedly believe that everything I need to know about life I learned in the 6th grade. The rest is just details.