5 life lessons from THE Harley Quinn!

“It’s The End Of The World. Have A Drink With Us”- HQ

Akhila Ashok Kumar
2 min readAug 1, 2020

Pre-Script: If you haven't watched ‘Suicide Squad’ & ‘Birds of Prey’, wait, what? You haven't? I mean, seriously?

When you are so in love with Ms. Harleen Quinzel, ain't takeaway lessons a sure thing?! Below are few Harley left us (or me) with.

When you don't find closure, you make one!

“We can’t change the past, but there’s a difference between moving on and letting go.”- HQ

Yes, she burnt down a chemical factory. Yes, she wasn't sober. Yes, it was illegal. But the point is, she found her own way of closure. Isn't that something, for the time we spend fretting over the ‘closure’ concept, could have been spent judiciously adoring a sandwich- of all things.

Do not take yourself too seriously!

“That so cute, you think you’re scary. Well, mister, I’ve seen scary and you don’t have his smile.” -HQ

Not losing your cool is important, guys. It's okay to get your mind off the edge for a while focusing on things of immediate importance, like that sandwich again. As they say, you are not gonna get out of life alive anyway!

Be polite, always. I mean, what else is sarcasm for?

“Nice to meet you. Love your perfume. What is that? The stench of death?”- HQ.

Do I have to explain more, as if we aren’t experts at it already?

Keep the child in you alive, even if you are called crazy.

“I know the voices in my head aren’t real, but sometimes their ideas are absolutely awesome.” — HQ

You aren’t supposed to get all serious. Even if you are a genius. Even if you are workaholic or any kinda ‘-holic’ for that account. Moreover, you never know what excellent places the voices you hear and respond to (in your young head), might take you.

Extremities in emotions are totally acceptable.

“I’ll burn the world just to see the fire in your eyes!” - HQ.

Well, if you don't let the best and worst emotions out, where do you think they’ll go? Nowhere. In your head, they shall stay and haunt you to hell. So express what you got. Get it out.

P.S. And smile. No matter what.

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Akhila Ashok Kumar

I read to fill my senses with magic, and I write so I don’t choke on the enchantments in my heart.