Five years ago, as the prime years of my youth were starting to wane, I suddenly realised that most of my life had been an endless parade of missed chances, lost opportunities, what ifs and could have beens, and that there was precious little I could do with the lessons I had learned from them, because life never gives you a second chance. So I chronicled those lessons I learned from life in the form of 33 things I learned from my life till then with a hope that someone could use them in their own lives. Now that I