11 Of The Funniest Life Lessons I Learned The Hard Way

Like how you should never take your family canoeing in a flood

Alexandra Walker-Jones
7 min readNov 1, 2020

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If you happen to find yourself with the ability to learn many of life’s lessons with a relative degree of ease, then consider yourself incredibly lucky!

Whether it’s my clumsy, absent-minded nature, or a tendency towards momentary lapses in judgement, there are a few things that I’ve come to learn as a result of doing things the hard way, making my own mistakes, or literally just forgetting how to human. I hope you enjoy, and I want you to know that you have my sincere condolences if you relate.

1. The order that you put together an email should be: add attachments, write email body, add email addresses, send.

Let’s not have any repeats of the time I sent nothing except the word, ‘Hello,’ to my college professor, somehow missing the gmail window to unsend, before also forgetting to attach my research paper in the apologetic email and amendment to follow.

Believe me when I say, ‘please find attached’ just hits differently when there’s absolutely nothing attached to be found.

2. Don’t take your family canoeing in a flood.

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Alexandra Walker-Jones

Content writer and published author in the plant-based health and wellness sphere. I’m just here to learn! awalkerjones.com