If it’s wet and ain’t yours, really think about it before you touch it.

Bring a towel.

Be a goldfish.

There’s probably only one play on this quarter. Don’t look back and think “what if…”

When I was in high school, I wanted to go to a couple specific unis. Being rejected was one of the best paths ever. I went to community college, made lots of friends, had amazing professors, took part in lots of programs where I made long term friends who even stuck with me to transferring to my current uni. I took a bunch of fun classes there that allowed me to get the skills I need to land the internship I have.

So my advice is, as a you guy, you have lots of time so test the waters, experience stuff, have fun, and you’ll enjoy whatever it is you end up in.

Don’t be that one guy who has to finish college in 4 years and then figure out that school didn’t teach you anything and you can’t find a job. You never took fun classes, joined programs, join clubs.

Here’s my rantomendation:

Don’t hit, mame or kill anybody ever. That includes when driving.

When driving pay attention to the road and only to the road. Ignore work or home or school problems. Don’t zone out.

Listen to your parents but don’t listen to the parts that limit you. Be gay if you are or straight or smart or whatever, be you. But listen to the good advice.

Fuck a lot

Eat healthy

Pay attention in school and learn from others. Be observant and follow in other people’s steps long enough to learn to blaze your own path.

Don’t get a school loan or max out your credit cards.

Work thru school in a light non interrupting way. Don’t get an 8hr job, just something part time.

Get that diploma and go find a job where they pay you for what you know. Work on something you like to do. Work to live, not live to work. But to get here, don’t skip steps…sweep the floor before you shoot for CEO.

Mourn your losses, everyone dies. Be happy with yours while you can. Family is everything and there’s not much more than your own personal desires beyond family. But if you don’t have kids by chance or by choice, still be happy. There’s plenty of people who choose not to have kids or be married or be in a relationship. Have bobbies. There’s a lot of you time towards the end part of your life. So Hobbies are good. Watching people is a hobby.

Be at peace. Don’t hate and help others not hate. Racism is the worse. So if you can help a racist person to accept others then that’s good.

Sit down pee when you’re visiting a friend’s house. Double points if you do the same at your own house.

It’s okay to be scared, but do it anyway!

Get on finasteride or something to preserve your hair line

Do you know what the genetic difference is between a human alive today and one who lived 100,000 years ago? Almost none.

The real difference is shared knowledge. Every generation stands on the shoulders of those before it. You hold in your hands more understanding than any person in history could have imagined.

You will always be ignorant, not as a flaw, but as a truth of being human. Accepting that is where real learning begins.

Stay curious. Curiosity keeps you open to the world. It grows empathy, invites wonder, and reminds you that every person you meet carries a piece of the story you haven’t heard yet.

And when you share what you’ve learned, don’t speak as though you hold the final word. Speak as someone who has explored, reflected, and arrived at their understanding with care.

Learning is a lifelong conversation, one that connects you to every curious mind that ever lived. So keep asking, keep listening, keep growing. The future needs you.

Break stuff and figure things out, take chances and have fun. You’ve got time. You’ll figure it out.

Take care of your teeth. Many loves will come and go in your 20s and maybe even 30s, but if its a life partner you want try focusing on yourself and they’ll appear out of thin air. Friends are important but not as important as inner peace. If a job offer 401k start investing as much as possible as soon as possible. Everyone is going through their own crazy messed up life so be kind. Puff, puff pass and enjoy your 20s as much as possible while not losing sight of your goals. Goals are EVERYTHING, set the achieve them and set them again. Heartbreak and death are integral parts of being human. It’s important to sit with and process the pain as long as YOU see fit. Death will come for someone you love someday, don’t let drugs or alcohol be your medicine

wisdom is often wasted on the elderly. youth is fleeting as are most the mistakes you will make in life at this point.

the following advice is fitting unless you’re doing either of these two things:

1. making babies
2. taking a life (especially your own)

Live the three truths

1. you will always make mistakes
2. you will always hurt those you love
3. you will always have regrets.

the older you get the harder it is to recover from these truths. Live your life to your requirements. By the time you’re closing in on your 30s, you should start to settle down and find yourself a quiet place to build your life for when you’re in your 50s or 60s.

in your 30s seek out happiness and contentment. this will be your foundation to accept your regrets and mistakes. own the mistakes you made along the way, accept them like you would a bruise or blemish on your body. in time they will heal, if only you accept them and move on.

in your 40s harvest your happiness and contentment. accept there are things you cannot do not because you haven’t or couldn’t but because you shouldn’t.

in your 50s store your happiness and contentment with the knowledge that nobody can take it from you, it’s yours and yours alone.

60+ feed your soul from your stores, using the memories you made along the way. depending on the life you have led, share in new memories with those around you. celebrate their successes as your successes.

if you’re lucky you will build lasting relationships along the way and will have many fond memories. you will inevitability have bad memories as well, but such is life.

personally I lost every single friend I have ever had. I never really recovered from it and now I have no friends. It’s one of many regrets, but I never let it spoil my happiness and contentment. I find fulfillment by other means like hobbies, crafting, and family.

I never wanted to be married or have kids, but it feels as if what you think is important today changes by tomorrow. don’t fight it, because you’ll only be fighting yourself.

life is full of surprises, learn to roll with the punches and adapt to the world. if you don’t, life will fucking kill you.

Specific advice like “save your money” and “enjoy your money while youre young” and “focus on education” and “forget education get a job fast” are all too nuanced and will likely get ignored anyway.

This “song” pretty much covers the important stuff.

DONT DO IT!!

THERE’S NO TURNING BACK

Lift wieghts and or do some other physical activity. Its good to have two hobbies; a mental one and a physical one. The muscle you build now will be with you for the rest of your life, and its mucb easier to do it now than when you are middle aged like me.

Dont focus too hard on girls, just live your life and enjoy the experiences and relationships you build with all people; everything else will follow.

Travel, with a focus on the physically taxing things that are harder to do when you are older.

Invest what money you can, compound interest is real and it is the path to wealth (eventually).

As someone who wishes someone had told me… Adults don’t know what we are doing either. It took me way too long to realize I’m not an imposter pretending to be an adult, we are all just kind of winging it.

As you grow older you’ll have seen more stuff and it will be a little easier, but I can attest I don’t have a clue what’s for dinner, just like I don’t know what new headache the next meeting will bring. Live life for life’s sake, the clock will keep ticking whether you’re ready or not.