Older readers (over 21), what is the best advice you would give someone younger?

I am 42 and I have only one advice: Do not idealise anything! Do not idealise love, marriage, religion, politics, your career, your children etc... We are all humans and everyone will fail at some point. I often see ppl with lofty ideals and when those ideals come crashing down, some never recover and to this day hold grudges. I see parents who pla......   2 reply

I'm 44, so I'll add my 2c here. Take chances. Make mistakes. Fail. And learn from all of it. The caveat, of course, is that there is a limit to how epically one can fail and still not have life suck big purple fuzzy donkey balls for the rest of your life. But no one succeeds at everything they do. (Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, I promise!) E......   2 reply

There's been a lot of good advice given so far so I'm going to try to cover something that hasn't been said yet. Keep in touch with your friends. Know and understand that friendship is a two way street: you both need to be reaching out to each other, otherwise one of you is going to burn out or you will drift. The older you get, the harder it is t......   reply

Try your best. And be kind to yourself.   reply

34 Years old here. My advice is... life is short and waits for no one. So even if you think on the future, don't just wait looking at your life happening. Enjoy the opportunities life brings to you and don't leave things for "later". If you have someone you hold dear, tell them. At my age you will probably have experienced already the loss of someo......   reply

i'm 31 years old. There are many good answer to this question.. some of my advices are written for others persons already, so i'll say 2 that i want to add or emphasize: 1- Do what you want to do. But i'm not speaking only about dreams, i'm talking about all your choices. Dont let others provoke you; dont listen to all the advices/suggestion/etc yo......   2 reply

Since when is 21 older? You’re barely able to wipe your own ass at 30. Okay advice. Quit being such righteous a**holes when you have almost no life experience   4 reply

I'm 32 and blonde and the best piece of advice I ever got was never shave above your knees. Its now black at the ankles, but still blonde where it counts. A close second is invest in retirement. Seriously, mine doubled last year. Your results may vary, but invest and in 30 years that 20k just sitting in the bank could become 200k or more, which is ......   2 reply

I am 33 next week and my advise is a little different to some of the others here. The fact is that most of what is going to happen to you in life is down to luck. You being in the right place at the right time is more important than anything else and you have no controle over it. I say that while still in school, do anything you want, don't feel li......   3 reply

Hm. It's hard to find universal advice, but (38 years), these are probably the top things I've noticed, that might be helpful: 1) Give yourself permission to fail or be embarrassed. We tend to catastrophise and internalise the feeling of failing or being embarrassed. It doesn't mean you won't feel embarrassed if you offer a response in class and i......   1 reply