One of the greatest things I’ve learned is something I had the honour to witness back in kindergarten. Courtesy of two classmates. One of the classmates was a “cool” boy who was a bit of a daredevil and the other was a “copycat” girl who was a bit of a whiner. One day during free time, the cool boy decided to eat sand from the sandbox . He was all like, “Yeah this is no big.” Seeing this act of bravado, Ms Copycat decided that she wanted to do the same and proceeded to shove sand into her mouth. She ended up crying and the teacher had to tell the boy to refrain from activities that were inappropriate and unsanitary. I think the lesson to be learned here is to not do what you see everyone else doing. Do what you think is best for yourself. Especially if you’re going to fail miserably and cry about it after.