daily prompt · Good advice

None of This Lasts

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

Enjoy people while you have them. Don’t focus on material things beyond what you need to survive and have a little cushion. Savor every second of every day because as you get older, you realize you maybe didn’t appreciate that moment at that time as much as you would, if you could do it again. No one ever wants to go back to high school, that’s why people have bad dreams about it. Learn how to love people and how to receive love. Have a pet from a young age, so that you understand what unconditional love is, and you understand how to care for something outside of yourself. If someone hurts you, you don’t get to say that they didn’t – and this goes both ways. Say you’re sorry first. Laugh every day. Say hello to people, especially the grumpy looking ones. You don’t have to forgive if you don’t want to, but try to let it go, so it doesn’t eat you up inside. It’s better for your own health than holding a grudge for life. Because this all ends.

Advice · daily prompt · Good advice · Saying I’m sorry · The best advice I ever received

The best piece of advice I’ve ever received came from one of my worst mistakes

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

“Stop saying you’re sorry for something you did not do. Do not take personal responsibility for something that has nothing to do with you or your actions. We say ‘I’m sorry,’ as a reflex response, a sentence filler, to a lot of situations that we did not create. It’s a passive response, a guilt giver. Remove it from your vernacular. Only say you’re sorry as a direct result of your own actions.”