Advice for Life

I'm reading a book to my class and as the young character gets ready to leave home, her ma gives her this advice, "Ain't nothing in this life comes easy to any of us, child.  Every road you walk down's got a price.  Sooner you learn that the better.  Don't matter the direction you go, there'll be some bad mixed in with the good and you just gotta learn to take the one with the other."  Good advice.  I wish I had thought to say that when Ty left home.  I'm going to store it in my memory banks and use it sometime.  I know the opportunity will come.  I would add that some paths you choose, and the direction you move, does make a difference.