While schools are great for learning that include education and discipline, but when it comes to life lessons, they often end up getting a short stick. With that in mind, here are fifteen life lessons that school hasn’t taught you:

1. Be yourself, because you can’t pretend forever.

Its you who matters!

It’s you who matters!

 

2. Interaction with the opposite sex is OK!

Not a big deal!

Not a big deal!

 

3. Friends don’t last a lifetime. Understand the difference between friends and peers.

High School never ends

High School never ends

 

4. Theoretical knowledge is not everything.

Bookworms never ruled the world

Bookworms never ruled the world

 

5. Marks have no effect on your future.

Its just a number!

It’s just a number!

 

6. It’s OK to break the rules.

Bend the rules like Beckham

Bend the rules like Beckham

 

7. Life is not a rat race and even if it is, you don’t need to run.

Leave the racing to the rats

Leave the racing to the rats

 

8. Being different is actually a good thing.

Theres no one like you!

There’s no one like you!

 

9. Engineering and Medicine is not the end of the world. You can really be whoever you want to be.

Follow your dreams!

Follow your dreams!

 

10. Appearance does not define confidence.

A book is never judged by its cover

A book is never judged by it’s cover

 

11. You might have been popular or nobody in your school, but time changes.

Its never too late to be famous

It’s never too late to be famous

 

12. Failures are the best lessons as long as you learn from them.

Failures- Best teachers!

Failures- Best teachers!

 

 

13. Being street smart because that’s where real life is played out.

 

Know your targets!

Know your targets!

14. Negotiating and convincing skills are a must, because life as you know, may depend on it.

Let success make the noise!

Let success make the noise!

 

15. Stress management, without which you might literally collapse.

Keep Calm and Rakho Apne Kaam se Kaam

Keep Calm and Rakho Apne Kaam se Kaam