Advice I wish I'd received as a kid.

I did include this one in the book already "How embarrassing, a fridge full of condiments and no food." Fight Club

tyler.durden said:

Me too, dude, me too...

You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world...

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....leh sigh....

I would say, "it is not your fault my friend. Do not let being raped affect who you are. Do not let your sister being raped affect who you are. Do not let the fact your mother will choose him over you affect who you are. Your mother will suffer for her decisions. Everyone suffers from their attachments. Suffering I am referring to is the negative emotions that we as humans associate with our five senses. Remember that there is a balance to all things... a yin and a yang. One cannot exist without the other, but it is a choice on what we choose to dwell on. You could continue on your current path and have wonderful adventures and suffer greatly, or rather you can begin to look at yourself like you are loved. You need to love yourself. Just because your mother, father and step-father tell you that you are not loved or welcomed should not effect who you are. It should not effect your path either. Everything you will experience in life will be from a perspective. Do not let a negative attachment cloud your experience with negative feelings. That only leads to more suffering. You will make mistakes along the way. We all make mistakes, but rather than dwelling on them, learn from them and begin again. If you only walk away with one thing from this conversation remember this," with hand together "I love you."

NietzscheKeen said:

As an "adult", I'm finding out many things about people, society, myself, etc. that I wish someone would have told me about years ago. Surely they had to know. Maybe they just didn't think about it. I thought it would be interesting to start a thread for information or advice that we wish someone would have told us years ago, but instead we had to learn it on our own the hard way. Anyone have anything to contribute?

My initial contribution is: I wish someone had told me that my family didn't always know what was best and that it's ok to not listen or not take their advice sometimes. And to not seek the approval of others, especially those that are always nay-sayers.

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Key advice for me would be to seek responsibility when you mess up and acknowledge it. *cough your separatist group here *cough. My grandmother would have slapped the crap out of me for failing to take responsibility.

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" - Hunter S. Thompson

TibetanBowl said:

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" - Hunter S. Thompson

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This is what I was thinking while reading this thread. Seems those around me all would like to think they are "that guy/gal" who braves the storm, when in reality, their actions determine them to be shore sitters. It takes courage to really live. I've been swimming upstream in this area all my life. I live surrounded by pseudo intellectual Yuppies who think they corner the market on life's meaning. Oy vey! They are so self absorbed they don't even realize that they are carbon copies of one another, nothing remotely interesting or unique about them. My parents pretty much always loved me for who I was and because they loved us they were supportive of almost all the wacky crap we did (siblings and I). But I wish they would've clued me in to the fact that all the rest of the sheep don't necessarily celebrate non conformity.

"The Magic Words Are:
Up Against the Wall Mother Fuckers"

Advice I wish all Americans were given before having children.

FEED YOUR KIDS (But not too fucking much)

All you need in this world is a colt. 45 auto pistol and the love of a good woman. Don't take shit from anybody. Get what you want. Don't be afraid of anything or anybody. The worst thing that can happen is you get killed. And everybody has to die sometime. Yeah!

Fantasies are usually better than the reality.

NietzscheKeen said:

As an "adult", I'm finding out many things about people, society, myself, etc. that I wish someone would have told me about years ago. Surely they had to know. Maybe they just didn't think about it. I thought it would be interesting to start a thread for information or advice that we wish someone would have told us years ago, but instead we had to learn it on our own the hard way. Anyone have anything to contribute?

My initial contribution is: I wish someone had told me that my family didn't always know what was best and that it's ok to not listen or not take their advice sometimes. And to not seek the approval of others, especially those that are always nay-sayers.

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never play leapfrog with a unicorn

Had to break this news to my grown daughter:

"Yes honey, there will always be mean girls. That 8th grade twit attitude never disappears. The adult twats like that just continue in their pettiness. "

I wish someone had clued me in on this in my early 20's

Hookabelly said:

Had to break this news to my grown daughter:

"Yes honey, there will always be mean girls. That 8th grade twit attitude never disappears. The adult twats like that just continue in their pettiness. "

I wish someone had clued me in on this in my early 20's

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Sadly most seem to be twats/twits for life. Quite sad. Oh well, sure they'll raise twattettes/twittettes who grow up to be carbon a-holes of their parents. God must be very disappointed in his work.

ThE sAtIvA hIgH said:

Dont drink dont take drugs and do well at school .
I recieved the advise just didnt listen

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do u regret smoking weed tho?

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