In future, you'll laugh at yourself on some things you do now.

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.

wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you could do. You make a fucking stupid mistake, and you could only call yourself an idiot and then snap back before you screwed up again.

Almost won means nothing but lose.
Learn your lesson, you'll be stronger.

If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary.