Life is like a game of cards. Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense. Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is. How good you do depends on your critics.
Life is like an onion.
You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry. Life isn't fair, but life isn't fair for everyone. That makes life fair. Life is really a bed of roses, others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns off. Life is so much simpler when you tell the truth.