Skills any person should learn how to do.

Okay, so quite a while back, I can across a list of skills every person should learn to do. Honestly, some of them were quite mundane. So I figured I'd assemble a more practical list. I got up to 14, intending for 25-50, but some of them seemed cliche, so I just decided to delete the post and start over. So, without further ado, I shall begin over and start anew the list that was to be.

1. Learn to adapt yourself without bitching about it.
Why is this first on my list? There is a major reason, and the reason is, this one is quite important. You'd be surprised how many people fail this one on an epic level. Maybe it's just 90% of the people I've met, but I have yet to meet more than a couple people who could gracefully adapt to a given situation without complaining. I am among those who cannot, and I'm still trying to master it. The first, and most difficult part of things, will be to understand that your situation can and will change. In fact, it does so more frequently than you realize, but every once in a while, you actually get into a situation where you have to change in a major way. Not fun, I realize, but to do it gracefully means you've realized that it happens and that griping about it won't change matters. However, also learn your boundaries, and where not to change. Which brings me to define...

2. Learn what is meaningful to you.
Learn what has REAL value to you. Stick to it like glue. Give it the time of day. I could go on and on with facsimiles of roughly the same phrase, but that doesn't change the fact that some things are worth it in life. Learn what they are before they're gone. Which brings me to...

3. Learn that money is merely a means to an end.
Money is not your God. Nor should it be. As the title for this thing goes, it's merely a means to an end, and you should only let it go that far. At the same time...

4. Learn to be frugal with your money.
This is one of my pet peeves. If I have money, I'm very liable to spend it. But I do realize that it's ridiculous to do so. I'm starting to save it (or at least, try to, as is very difficult in my current situation). If you don't a decent proportion of money saved up (based on your situation, of course), things may go horribly awry. Call me a hypocrite, but someone has to say it.

5. Learn to balance family with self.
You're going to need a certain bit of alone time in proportion to family time. I understand that. Just don't let the alone time consume you. I try to spend time with my mother when I have the chance. With her new job, that's ever difficult, so I fully intend to get in any time with her that I can. In fact, we just went camping recently, for the uniformed. A bit of a hard day since she didn't reserve, but overall time spent with her is more than worth it.

6. Make a dream. Stick with it.
You know how we all had dreams as a kid? Mine was to be a pilot. I've sacrificed that for owning a computer business eventually. But have I given up on my dream? No. It's just shifted in perspective. I realized that I probably wouldn't like being a pilot, so I wanted to do something better suited to me. Which brings me to...

7. Learn your limits. Expand them constantly.
If you don't know your limits, you don't know what you can't do yet. And if you don't know what you can't do yet, you don't know how much more you can do. Not only does this one give you a sense of humbleness and respect for yourself, but also, if you're in any sense of the word human, it'll most likely make you want to expand on it and better yourself. And a word of advice: it doesn't matter what your age is. Which brings me to...

8. Learn how to hide your age without beauty products and lies.
I mean this with a sense of duality- both young and old. I'm 21 years old, but I have much more wisdom than quite a few people I've seen, because I listened, believed, and questioned. On the other side of the coin, never grow old mentally. Keep your brain aloft no matter what- it's one of the things that will keep you alive longer, and let you accomplish more in that time.

9. Discover something new every day.
It doesn't matter what it is. So long as it has meaning to you. Let me repeat that: learn something every day that has meaning to you. Only be a master of trivia if it means something to you. Personally, I prefer to learn a large amount on a specific subject rather than 100 facts about 100 different things.

10. Never stop questioning.
It's part of the tool that you use to develop yourself. Never, ever stop questioning. But also...

11. Learn where some things should just be accepted for the sake of time.
You can't learn everything in your lifetime. It's as simple as that. There's just too much to know. Learn what's really important to question and what's not. When dealing with the media, question. When dealing with the computer guy, question. When dealing with something life threatening where questioning could kill you, don't question. This does not include religion.

12. Learn how to keep track of things... in your head.
I have a horrible memory. Some people this comes to naturally, but honestly, there are some things you just have to know. Learn to manage the myriad of life, but don't overdo it, or you might lost track of what's truly important.

13. Learn when to rely on others and when not to.
This is an extremely trial-and-error thing, and there really is no one-size-fits-all definition to it. But that's life.

14. Learn to laugh and smile more often.
You can never do this one enough. If you're a serious person and a realist like myself, you don't get in nearly enough laughs. But it's contagious. Spread it.

15. Learn to eat healthy.
Most Americans don't know what true healthy is. Most Americans couldn't follow true healthy. I don't think anyone truly has this one 100% right.

16. Learn to work well with your niche.
In my now deleted previous draft, this came in the form of "learn to group with a specific niche of people". I then went on to define niche. What I realized is that it was pointless. We all have a specific niche of people we work best with. Get to know the ins and outs of that, because life is too short to try to adapt to everyone.

17. Learn to balance all of these.
Finally, no one part of life is going to present itself perfectly. Learn to do all of these, but learn to run the balancing act of life instead of devoting yourself solely to one or the other. All are important. Some more than others, but still, all of them.