I’ve been on the receiving end of many different bits of advice throughout my years of being a living and breathing human being. Advice that I have received can definitely be ranked on a scale of how impactful it can be. As I have gotten older, my mother has always been constantly telling me advice that in her eyes helps me stay protected. Now that she works in the UK emergency room her advice has gotten a bit extreme. Wear helmets while riding bikes, seatbelts in cars, and even the occasional “Please do not put any object of which you do not know the origin up your ass.”. Thanks mom.
In all seriousness the best advice that I have gotten would be from my Papaw John. One day I was at his house, which is quite large and in the country. While I was leaving he took me on his back patio and spread his arms across all the land he owned. He looked at me and said, “Look. Look at all of my work. All of it is my responsibility. Look at yourself now, you are free, you have nothing besides family and youth. You are in the midst of the best years of your life. Enjoy every minute. After he told me that, I have tried to make the most out of every situation. Everything that I am able to do right now, things that I know someone as old as him can not I try not to take for granted. I am trying to live every minute of my teenage and young adult life to the fullest.
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