Know yourself. Look within. Understand what makes your emotions
   move to and fro and learn how to manage the emotions that come
   your way. Learn to let them pass by like clouds passing in the
   sky. While learning to understand yourself, you will learn to
   understand others. Learning is lifelong, and you get thousands
   of moments every day to learn something, or to be reminded of
   what you almost forgot. To shoot a ship to the moon it takes
   thousands of tiny course corrections so that it doesn't miss the
   moon by a mile. Learn to fall. Learn to be wrong. Be okay with
   it. Be thrilled when you're wrong and find something to learn
   from every situation. You will then never be bored, and you will
   be more well-rounded a person. Know yourself, from the best
   parts of yourself to the yuckiest parts of yourself. apply what
   you know about yourself to others, and work to understand them.
   It is the only way to be at peace. It takes a lifetime but it is
   a process of moving from obscure to less obscure, like washing a
   really dirty mirror that takes a lifetime to clean before you
   can see yourself as you truly are, and you are no longer afraid.

   Thanks to @102976465024742837897 for inspiring me to write this
   in response to her post.