Experience is the best teacher but it can be your worst teacher if you fail to embrace new environments and new reality.
Sometimes all it takes is pausing what you already knew the moment you realize it no longer works.
Myles Munroe.
The first race you won was the race to life against over 300 million fellows.
You are not a loser at all.
It's typically God's grace that you are alive in the first place.
Head up.
Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, strife ceases.
As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Prov 26:20-21