Life Lessons I've learned from Minecraft

So, having been around on MC for two years, I've done a lot, seen a lot, and been through a heck of a lot. I've had my ups and downs, seen others go through them, and seen people change, for the better or the worse. But, after all this time, I've started realizing something: I have no idea what to say I realized, 'cause there is more than one.... so yeah. List, thing, yeah... go read, the thing down there, now, go. Yes, you, read the thing with the stuff and.... yay?

Life is not easy​

I think it's something we call come to realize at some point: Life isn't easy. I mean, if it was, what would be the point? I've heard it before, but I'd like to say it again: If you're always given what you want, you'll never be truly happy. Some of you are probably wondering "How? Heatdude, you cray cray. Having everything you want would be awesome!" But really, it's not. Think about it. We even when we are extraordinarily happy, we still want more. No, I'm not saying we're all pigs, but it is human nature to want more than what you have, so don't think you're greedy if you think like that sometimes too.
You see this in MC all the time; people losing friends, people losing touch with people, getting dumped, a billion things, all the time. Sure, it happens in real life too, but I've seen it more here. So, if it happens all the time, you can't assume that life is bad for you while nobody else has to face this type of stuff.
If you always got everything you want, what's the point? Life's too short to always be happy, as we learn from our mistakes and our downs so we can be happier and appreciate it more when we are happy.
Going through hard times is normal, and it happens to all of us. Don't think so? Look around. Players go through it, staff go through it, heck, even Jerry and Harry go through it. So if you're ever thinking "Wow, I have it worse. No, you can't understand." Think again: all of us know that feel, bro.

Enjoy life​

I'm sure we've all been told: Life is short. But want to know what's shorter? The time you have left to do this. Sure, some people will keep playing MC as an adult and maybe become a famous youtuber and make money that way or something, but most of us won't, sorry to break it to you. So, you only have a bit of time here, so spend it wisely: enjoy it. You don't need to make the giant house to impress your friends if you don't want to, go play that game you love. Life isn't all about getting to the top, and if you want to live your life to the fullest, you will have to do some things you don't want to. But in MC, I've realized that the time for that is not all the time, and you should always make sure that you are enjoying what you're doing too: If you don't, you're just wasting your life.

Give it your all​

We all like SG, right? No? Well too bad, pretend like you do anyway. If you play an SG game you are only half-trying, what's gonna happen? Your gonna get pwned by me. You're not going to win if you aren't trying. The same thing goes for real life: If you only try half-heartedly on anything, it's not going to get finished, or be nearly as good as it would have been had you really tried using your full potential. And that brings me to my next topic:

Everybody is a genius​

"BUT HEATDUDE, I HAVE AN F- IN MATH!" Oh, never mind, it would appear I'm wrong. You are stupid. OKay, that was a joke. 1) It's freaking math, everybody has an F (Well, more than any other subject out there....) and 2) That's not what I mean by genius. There is a quote by Albert
Einstein that I have admired for quite some years now, and I think we can all understand what it means:
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
This was something I understood most when I did it in MC. Now, I would say I am pretty good all around, but having spent 2 years playing and waaaay too much time on my laptop each day, I should be. But for the first even year, I struggled with different things: I couldn't do redstone, couldn't do pvp, couldn't do a lot. But what I could do was build. Not saying I'm the best builder in the world, but it was, well, is, my highlighted ability in minecraft. So, if you aren't getting good grades, or you suck at sports, you have trouble with drawing, you can't sing, or whatever you're struggling in, remember this: "Just because you are the worst at one thing doesn't mean you can't be the best at something else." -Me

Be Brave​

Be brave. It's simple. Do it. You don't need to be afraid what people will think of you for it: If you think it's the right thing to do, then I'll support you, and others will do the same. Do what you think is right, not what some person told you is. If you are that kid sitting alone at the lunch table, and no, I'm not making fun of you, that used to be me for about 7 years, then get up and go talk to that person you like. And if they reject you? Well, that's their loss. Cowering away isn't going to get anything done, you have to step up and take action. This really was something I learned in Minecraft. Had I not been brave and interacted with people, because trust me: I'm very anti-social, I would have never been as social in this community as I am, or in real life with strangers.

I'm sure there are many more, so feel free to share your life lessons you've learned from playing Minecraft, and do it in this format:

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Stuff about the life lesson, how you learned it from MC.

 

Thanks. I put more effort into this than I normally do, not that I don't put any in on the rest, but this was something I thought would be good to make, since recently I've seen many people go through down turns, I thought "Hey, I should make a thread about something." And so I did.