As a Television serviceman, it was not until well into my craft that I learned that pure water was an insulator. it is only the salts and contaminants from the earth which render water as a conductor of electricity. Rain water is pure, it must be or all the transmission lines across the country would have their insulators short circuited whenever it rained.

There's a whole lot of shit I can't and shouldn't try to control.

The main thing I learned as an adult is that adults aren't as smart as I thought they were as a kid. Most of the time it seems like we're just making things up as we go along. We don't really know what we're doing for the most part.

I learned everything about adulthood as a young adult. How to budget and pay bills, still working on that one,

Life isn't easy. School life was easy, be it friends, work, school. It was easy making friends (and this is coming from me who didn't have many friends) because you have to be around a bunck of people 5 out of 7 days a week. But when you leave school and (hopefully) get a job. I don't know if you guy love hanging out with your coworkers afterwork. But I for one can only stand 3 or 4 people I work with after work........ So I don't rember everything else I wanted to say.

I learned that many people are full of shit.

That nothing is ever as straight forward and black and white as we were told...

I think I have the exact opposite to you. I always was co-operative, lived in communes worked in worker co-operatives I am only in the last 25 years becoming my own individualised person and feeling Ok about it .

When I was very young I came to the conclusion that the church and it's foundation (religion) was too stupid to be real because adults were telling us stories that were clearly not based on reality. I therefore concluded religious claims were not real and nothing more then a stupid mind game adults use to control children. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I realized that some (many) adults actually believed in the fantasy the church preaches. That was a cold and bitter realization that changed what until then had been a very optimistic outlook for the future of humanity.

saying 'no' without any negative feelings.

appreciating the taste of brussel sprouts, kalamata olives & ginger.

patience.

performing solo a capella on stage without dying.

That my parents had elastic conscience's.
I also learned that you are allowed to take time for yourself guilt free. Work isn't the be all and end all.

I learned very early on that I could make any male do anything I wanted, just by paying real good attention and sparkling at them. As an adult, I realized that I really did not want that ability, so I dimmed the sparkle and became sarcastic.