My Advice to You

“Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it”

Its funny how advice works; when someone else needs it, you dispense it with great wisdom and confidence. When someone is down in the dumps, and they come to you for help, you give them advice, you tell it to them like it is, you make them feel good about themselves (well, most of the time at least!). And when you do that, you feel wise and profound. Life has an uncanny way of turning around kicking you in the “behind”.
Eventually, you will have a bad day, or something will affect your life and you will be in need of advice. Ironically, you will be in need of similar, if not the same, advice you gave someone else. And that same person will probably be the one giving it to you. It is not that people need to be told how to live their lives, or make decisions about their lives; just that sometimes, they need to be reminded of how things stand and they need another perspective that is un-biased and that seems to help.
Advice you give, or advice that you take, should not be “the decisive factor” with your future actions with regards to the problem at hand. You listen, you comprehend and then you decide what’s best for you. For at the end of the day, you are responsible for your own actions. You choose what you do. If you don’t hold yourself accountable for you have how can you blame someone else? I am preaching as I write this. But I know for sure, that when I wake up tomorrow, I will need someone to remind me of all this. I will need to be “told” this. For I am human, I am as lost and confused as the next person.


“Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth”