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NoJoMo Day 16 : What’s a lesson you learned the hard way? in NoJoMo 2025

  • Nov. 16, 2025, 1:17 p.m.
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Everything beautiful requires effort.

And that effort sometimes means cutting off parts of your personality and life that you’ve spent decades curating.
Since only select-few get the manual of life at the right time, rest of us have to figure things out on our own.

Sometimes the lessons are harsh, rarely rewarding, and lot of mundane and safe decisions that become a skill, that turns into habit that turns into a personality corner stone. And we keep believing this dull, comfortable part of me is the best that can be, because it works and it doesn’t need replacing.

A lot of your parts need updating and replacing. We only realize that through harsh lessons.
Either someone speaks the magic word that breaks the hypnosis and you realize how wrong you’ve been all along or something that happens that challenges every notion you’ve previously had and throws it on the ground, shattering it. leaving you with no choice but to built it up again.

Which should be a recurring practice, but we’re too complacent and stubborn to let discomfort make any decisions.

I can’t believe how stupid I was and how much I ruined just because I was happy in my reveries, in my fortress of comfort and serenity.

Everything beautiful requires effort.
The best time to start is today.


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