One of the things I’ve learned in life is this: clichéd sayings are just that for a reason and people can repeat them to you forever, but you have to teach yourself about them.
Like the one about stopping to smell the flowers:
No one is going to make you understand that. You have to get it for yourself.
At a baseball game tonight the home crowd heckled the visiting third baseman. Turns out it was his birthday, too and for his trouble he got a custom-signed baseball. That’s not bad:
