Alanniss Morissette You Live You Learn Meaning

In the song “You learn” by Alannis Morissette, is a very inspirational song. In this song Morissette is talking about mistakes that people go through. From this Morissette uses many different ways to express how people can learn from these mistakes. The line “you live, you learn.” (Morissette, p.1) is very motivational to me because as time goes by you learn to gain knowledge form what accrued in the past. There was this one time when I was young and my older brother told me that I am dumb and not smart enough to do his homework. From what he said I took it the wrong way got really mad, disappointed and started to cry.
It was the winter of 2006 I was about 5 years old and my brother was 7 years old. My brother and I were doing homework in the living room, that day my mom was willing to challenge us she said who ever finishes there homework first will get something good. Then she said ready set go and we started 10 minutes later I was done I was so excited that I finished something before my brother I said mommy, mommy I am done at that moment my brother was extremely disappointed that I was done before him and before thinking twice he said that is not fair and the only reason you finished before me is because you have baby homework so shut up I bet you if you did my homework it would
Ever since that day I always thought I was dumb and not capable of doing things that where above my grade level. However, as time went by I started learning that everyone is capable of doing anything if you just believe in your self and try. I also learned that nobody is dumb and everyone is smart in there own ways. From this another thing I learned is that no matter what age you are older or younger then your sibling you are capable of doing anything you set your mind