As a small child what was the most simple, innocent lesson you had to learn the hard way?

[EzraIsShy76028]

TL;DR At the bottom.

So this took place when I was like 7 years old in the 1st grade. My favorite color was blue. But I had this male best friend who I was absolutely crazy for, for some reason. I was practically gay for him. Not even quite sure why because looking back he wasn't even special in any way.

But either way, his favorite color was green. And since I wanted to be like him in every way, I also changed my favorite color to green, or at least tried to.

At first "changing" my favorite color to green felt unnatural, as I liked blue more. After about a year though, green being my favorite color instead of blue turned into a genuine thing. I felt so proud of myself...

Only for my friend to change his favorite color to blue... which was the color I liked in the FIRST place before changing it just to please him... 🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️

At this point I had put WAAAAAAY too much effort in changing my favorite color to green, so I was NOT gonna go through that entire process again to change my favorite color once more, especially not to my previous favorite color! 😩

Either way, the lesson here was: "NEVER change aspects of yourself just to please someone else!"

Funny enough, to this very day green is still my favorite color, and blue is still my second favorite color... it hasn't changed since! 😅

TL;DR So basically my favorite color was blue. But my best friend's favorite color was green. I spent an entire year changing my favorite color to green, till it eventually became genuine, only for my friend to change his favorite color... to blue... the color I liked in the first place... 🤦Lesson here: "NEVER change aspects of yourself just to please someone else!"

[DannyUk2017]

To not pull the door shut and keep my fingers between the door and the door frame...😅... that hurt like hell... and not one finger, but 4...(ouch)...😅😂

[EzraIsShy76028]

Damn... ouch... I remember a time where I was EXTREMELY young... like I don't know exactly, but perhaps 2 or 3 years old? But anyway, I wanted to go in the bathroom while my dad was in there for whatever reason, and he closed the door on me, and my fingers were in the door frame, and... I can't even begin to describe the pain, lol... 💀

For the record, he did it by accident.

To this day that incident left a very small scar on one of my fingers that hasn't healed since. 😬

[DannyUk2017]

😅😂

[DryGermanGuy]

Electricity is really dangerous. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[EzraIsShy76028]

Ah yeah. I remember when I was like 9 years old or so in the 3rd grade, this boy told me to put this sort of electric wire from the computer in my mouth, so I did it, and it stung my tongue (but didn't hurt it) and the teacher went absolutely nuts, like: "OOOOOOOOH WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT? WHY WOULD YOU PUT SOMETHING ELECTRICAL IN YOUR MOUTH?" And then I told her the boy told me to, and she told him "shame on you" or something like that. 😓