“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
Gaiman is right, because these lessons are ones that cannot be taught from within the four restricting walls of a classroom. These are life lessons that must be lived and breathed, and experienced by all of us. Some people might learn these lessons quickly - though this may be considered both a blessing and a curse, while others might spend a lifetime seeking the answers to life's great unanswerable questions and never find what they were looking for. Life is different for each and every one of us, and it is for that reason that we are referred to as individuals. Though this may be the case, we must always try our best to remember that while noone will never share exactly the same experience as you, you are never going to find yourself in a situation that will leave you isolated from the world. Someone cares, sympathises and empathises with you, and you must seek that silver lining that emerges with every cloud.