Okay, i'm young, and I keep messing up.. lets see if we can all share some of the good stuff.
1. what's the best advice you were ever given?
2. who told you?
3. did it make a difference? if so, how?

My dad looked me in the eyes a few years ago and said 'You know you can't save everyone love...' It reduced me to tears and I realised in a nano second more about myself and the mistakes I had made than I had learned in the twenty years before. I'm still working on the listening part.

Only years after my father passed did I realize he knew a lot more about life than I did.

A cop once told me that no one cares about me, and when I get locked up, at the end of the day the c/o is the one that goes home at night. That kinda helped a little at the time.

"It is better to apologize later...than to ask permission first"

My Dad laid that little gem on me when I was 27.

I asked..."Why didn't you tell me this when I was younger?"

He just smiled.

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Follow your instincts.

Never second guess yourself.

wow your intentives are good very good aura!

PirateBaby....we all mess up....alot. But, that ain't a bad thing. Mistakes and hardships are what forge us into adults. It ain't easy and it ain't fun....but, it works.

Young or not...you at least are thinking about it and trying not to repeat your mistakes.....you are experiencing maturity.

Anyone can make a mistake. Only dumb$$es repeat them.

Best advice:

From my Dad - always do the best you can (in any given moment)
From my favourite English teacher - "To thine own self be true" (Polonius, from Hamlet)
Follow your heart, follow your bliss - several books
From sailors - don't spit into the wind. What a great image!

I'll probably think of more later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA

Thats just brilliant! Like pure flowing philosophy. Henceforth I shall always ask myself 'would an idiot do that???'
I had planned on not growing up, always seemed a bit overrated, but i'm coming to the conclusion it's no excuse for being a dips***.
I shall openly apologise here for the copious amount of red bull i drank last night as it seems to have resulted in me going nuts with the posting threads all over the forum You know when you wake up in the morning and its all a bit 'noooooo....' oops.

Idiotism isn't idiotism until some idiot points it out

Best advice, let's see...

There has been so much advice that has been handed on to me both directly and inadvertently that it's hard to sinngle out a "best advice" for this thread, as all advice has been rather profound in some way or another.

Bruce Lee's "be the water" is sitting inside my head at the moment for no particular reason that i can think of except to "go with the flow"....

Now where'd me lilo and rose coloured glasses get to?

Mind my own business.


my ex wife.



no......

Realizing that you can't save everyone is a great liberating moment. Realizing that no one can save you from yourself is another one.

Life is a highway. Tom Cochrane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo&feature=related

It is hard to go against one's own nature.

"When you can't find the answer, follow the money trail".
From my Dad, when I asked why elected officials make such bad decisions.

It's my own, but very similar to your dad's:

"even before health nutting existed, and exercise kicking, if you wanted to live a long life, you needed to eliminate things from your lifestyle that jacks up premiums in life insurance forms."

Those life insurance gnomes made no bones about the unfounded claims and inclonclusive studies regarding cigarette smoking, bacon-eating, and marathon-couch potatoing.

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"you have to choose well which adviced to listen to, and which advice not to listen to." This can make the difference of life and death sometimes. You see, I am going to die an early death, leaving a family behind in abject poverty and nothing to go on to fend for themselves in view of a policy; I am going to die of smoke and cholesterol and diabetic complications, because I listened to my body telling me what to do ("eat some bacon... go lick an ice cream... smoke when you really need it...") instead of making life insurance forms my nightly reading to fall asleep.

You do if you don't, you die if you're doomed.

'If you argue alot before you get married, it only gets worse when you get married.' That advice was given to me by a very old lady, when I was 19.

So true. It doesn't get any better.

If you go down, go down in style.

my own advise, to myself.

Yes it has made a difference, the end doesn't have to be a mindless mess, it can be a brand new beggining.