school of hard knocks...

or life if you prefer the short and easy. why is everything to be learned from experience? and why is experience always, always tough. there are no soft landings in life i've discovered.
be it coming to the conclusion that work sucks, that bosses are mean and will only remember the mistakes you've made or that its such hard work just having to wake up every morning being positive (I think its a quarter life crisis)...god! everything has to be learned the hard way.....
funny i dont remember life being such an up hill task when I was a kid. or maybe my brain wasnt fully developed enough to comprehend such complexities.