Both my mother and my father gave me tons of advice about life. Many times they did not chose the right words and so their message was heard as nagging instead. I know they just wanted to help me avoid the vast suffering they had already gone thru in life, but when the audience is a young person who thinks he knows everything... I just don't know how much filters into that innocent immature brain. To parents, it must be hard to sit back and watch their child suffer the same nonsense they went through - it must make them wonder why they had to go through all the suffering to begin with, if they could not pass on their knowledge to their younglings.
My parents told me so. And I even told others too. But what it all comes down to is that life's experiences cannot be learned from a book, or downloaded from the internet, or from listening to advice, nagging or warnings. Life becomes life only after you have experience it. Kind of like a tattoo: Life doesn't become part of you until you have gone thru the pain and then healed. Life must be learned. Life must be earned.
So get out there and suffer and earn your own life. You'll look back one day and be proud of all you've done. And, on that same token, allow others to live their own lives; you cannot take away this from anyone... that is probably the biggest crime possible: Taking away someone's chance to experience the bittersweetness that is life.
Amen.
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