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Learning it the hard way

Then, we’ll never, ever put our fingers to the flame again.

Guess some of us will have to learn our life’s lessons the hard way, which means we have to try it for ourselves, get burned, to remember.

To learn a lesson the hard way, you see, means we learn it through experience, the bitterer the experience the better.

It means we have to go through the process including suffering setbacks and going through pain, no skipping steps, no cutting corners or seeking shortcuts and that sort of thing.

Doing it the hard way is, in fact, the honest way, the fundamental, though sometimes foolish way.

But, speaking of one’s life as a whole, it is, I may contend, the only way.

Alright, here are media examples:

1. There was cause for optimism for both managers following Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Arsenal in Wednesday UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg, although United boss Sir Alex Ferguson admitted his side may rue a series of missed opportunities in a game they dominated from start to finish.

Ferguson’s opposite number, Arsène Wenger, admitted his side had not been at their best, though he remains confident the situation can be retrieved in the second leg next Tuesday.

United secured a valuable 1-0 lead to take to the Emirates next Tuesday, courtesy of John O’Shea’s first-half strike, but the Reds’ manager acknowledged that poor finishing cost his side a more comfortable victory.