Lessons

...from the big school of life, especially on-one's-own life:

Being cheap with regards to food is not a virtue. Furniture never loses human smells, so don't ever consider the mad Golgotha that is chemical cleaning. A walk is more entertaining than a mediocre TV show. Conversation is overwhelmingly valuable in form, not in content. Privacy is an illusion; the best we can hope for is discretion. Life is not fair to anyone, ever. I have the capacity to pre-judge, to hate based on a first impression, to protect my own interests parochially, to assume and "us versus them" mentality. Fruit flies are not to be beaten; they are to be nudged along. There are situations in which lifeboat ethics still apply. The feeling of entitlement is madness, but a useful madness. Nobody ever has enough money, so don't worry about it. Every place is not the same. More than ever, I want to see a mountain. (Not all these are lessons, but are realizations, epiphanies, brain-gasms, I've forgotten many because I lack the proper retrieval cues and am too tired to attempt a more efficient exploration of my loger-term memory.)

Consider: "the cutest forced binary decision task I've stumbled across."