15&1 things life has taught me

Here's a small list of things (in no particular order) life has taught me.

1. Nothing is for free, everything comes with a price.
2. Don't expect everything to stay the same forever, make the most of it while you can. One day you'll look back and wonder why you didn't take the chance.
3. Don't judge someone if you don't know them and if you do, don't judge them anyway, you aren't in their shoes. 
4. Take life as it comes at you. Stay focused on today and not yesterday or you'll find yourself swept off your feet.
5. Its a world of opportunity only that it goes around disguised as hard work.
6. Society is harsh, they'll kick you to the ground then kick you some more.
7. The truth is the truth hurts. People would rather be lied to than face reality.
8. Love is powerful but time and patience is stronger.
9. Friends are easy to come by, but loyalty is a difference story. Out of all the people you know how many of them are likely to help you if you're in the dirt?
10. Life is a learning experience, its not something you can learn about in a text book, its not something you can predict. Its a journey of falling sideways through time in which you experience so much and end up being battered and bruised before being spat out.
11. It's a book written in pen and sooner no matter how small you write it must come to an end. You can't erase the words written, only cross them out and hope no one notices. 
12. Never hold a grudge against someone, forgive them but don't forget them.
13. The good created in fighting is only temporary while the evil created is permanent. 
14. Some rules are meant to be broken.
15. Life isn't made up of black and white its an infinite grey.

Plus 1. Be who you are, if you don't know who you are then you have clean slate to start. People judge you by what they see and hear, they don't take the effort to learn who you are. How can you judge something without even understanding it? If people don't accept who you are then why bother with them. Be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.