/usr/games/random: Chronology of Advice

[silveradept]

There’s been a thing going around saying “If you could give five pieces of advice to your sixteen year-old self, what would you say?” Which is a fine and dandy thing to think about, and so there are responses below, which hopefully will would not cause paradoxes were I actually to be able to communicate them to my younger self.

1. If it isn’t safe, don’t go for the tackle. You’ll thank me later.
2. You’re better at working around problems than you think. Don’t despair if things don’t go according to plan.
3. Don’t be afraid of being honest with someone. Yeah, it’s not always a positive result, but you’d be surprised what you learn.
4. Similarly, don’t be afraid of being honest with yourself. There’s more potholes here, but the learning and the results are awesome.
5. It really is better once you get beyond the narrow world of high school. Take heart.

But given my penchant for going One! Step! Further! than that, I seize hold of the cloth and give it a new wrinkle.

What five pieces of advice would you give me now? After all, I’m in that segment of life where advice about what is upcoming is certainly something to be sought or found. So, as a recently graduated, recently employed, recently moved twenty-something with possibilities in front of him, what advice would you give me?