We always rush into things, which isn’t bad, because time is money and money is just about everything in this world nowadays (but that’s an entirely different story, I know). So what we do is we make patterns that in just one glimpse we already know. Like when you’re taking an exam and you eliminate everything that looks plain stupid. But sometimes one glimpse is JUST NOT ENOUGH. There’s the so-called trick question, right? The first lesson is: It’s true what they say. The devil is in the details—the smallest details.

A month ago, I fell “in like” with a guy. When I got home I didn’t remember how he looked, but I remembered that he was wearing red polka-dot boxer shorts underneath his pants. Today, I saw him again; this time he had purple boxers. Looking more closely at him (though now I don’t remember how he looks, again), I realize that (1) I don’t find him that much attractive and (2) I don’t like him that much. The second lesson is, sometimes, the smallest details are not enough. Remember his face more than his boxer shorts.

Last night I saw this 1989 Romanian film entitled Mircea. It’s only somewhere in the middle of the film that I realized the lovely boy (one of my two most favorite characters in the film) is actually the young Vlad Tepes. I looked up the name of this actor and found him on Twitter and Facebook. I messaged him and tonight I got his reply: “…it’s just a coincidence.” The third lesson, therefore, is: At any given name, always think that there are at least two people of that same name! 

Experience is not the best teacher, unless you let others teach you, and then you can take it from their experience. If, however, your mistake is not deadly, you’re free to laugh about it, or at yourself. It’s not entirely a new lesson for me, though, but sometimes I forget.

(So, just let me: LOL LMAO ROFL)