37 Simple, Beautiful Things I Learned From The First Season Of ‘This Is Us’
By Mariam Zaher
1. God’s plan for us is better than any plan we would ever plan or predict
2. You were here before you were born and you’ll remain after you die
3. No matter how much you fight against it, something are bound to happen the way they were meant to
4. The more you consciously let things go, the happier your life gets
5. A happy life isn’t always an easy life
6. Stop wasting your life doing things that make you miserable
7. You shouldn’t always treat your children exactly the same because they aren’t all the same. Equity isn’t always equality
8. You don’t have to live the same life you’re family lives; create a life that suits you
9. Yes, children will affect your marriage
10. Being a parent is the hardest and most beautiful thing you could do
11. Parents are prone to making mistakes, too
12. Your parents may make mistakes; it doesn’t mean you’re bound to make the same mistakes
13. Making mistakes doesn’t make you a bad person
14. The way you see something isn’t necessarily how it is
15. A lie is better admitted now than later
16. You have to allow people to forgive you
17. Brutal honesty and straight forwardness make life easier and more understandable
18. Look into people and you’ll always find a reason to forgive them
19. Understanding and forgiving are very different things
20. Sometimes we seek guidance hoping we’d hear what we want to hear to relief us from the guilt
21. Sometimes you have to do the right thing even if you don’t want to
22. Believing in someone is sometimes the only way you can help
23. What you say to one person can ripple and effect more than that person alone
24. Being a good person is a hell lot of effort
25. Good people change lives without even realizing it
26. You must show up for the people you love
27. When you truly love someone, you always choose them when it comes down to it
28. The right person will love you unconditionally, until you start being selfish
29. You only get one epic love story in your life, don’t waste your time with mediocrity and never let the “one” go
30. When things don’t work out the way you wanted them to work out, it doesn’t mean that things didn’t work out at all
31. You have to face your anger
32. Our pain is part of who we are
33. Pain demands to be felt, you can’t ignore it and shut it out
34. You sometimes don’t realize your destiny until you reach it
35. A sad ending doesn’t mean a sad story
36. Embrace every second of the life you’re living, savor it and catch the pieces of it
37. Take the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turn it into something resembling lemonade