ITT: oldfags give youngfags life advice. 38yr old man...

ITT: oldfags give youngfags life advice. 38yr old man, not the oldest here I'm sure but I've gotten my share and witnessed plenty of learning moments through friends and family. I'll start with the basics.

>don't put pussy on a pedestal
there's literally billions of them out there

>pay your taxes
feds will give ya some leeway, the state on the otherhand will assrape everything you know and love over 20 bucks

>stay close to family/siblings (unless they really are shit)
your parents love you. Love them back.Your siblings will be the closest connection to your past you will ever have

>money isn't everything
Yes it's important, but only to a point, there is more to life than just getting laid and chasing dollars

>moderation in all things
drugs, sex, work, all things

>if you can, travel
the rest of the world is nothing like where you live right now. Getting out and experiencing it, learning it, is priceless.

>treat your future self like you would treat a dear family member
Don't knowingly fuck yourself. Like not paying your bills to buy drugs or otherwise fuck off

>remember that everyone you encounter is just like you, a person, living their lives. Don't be a dick just cause you can, or because they deserve it. Just like this life is your experience, their life is theirs. They are just people, just like you.

>if you're under 25 and in a serious relationship you're moving too fast
A lot can change about yourself in your early twenties. Most of the time people at that age don't really know wtf they want. Don't rush shit like marriage, kids.

>be yourself
acting like something you're not is only lying to yourself. Pursue the things that you want, don't chase goals to appease other people. I'm looking at you, closet fags.

At the end of the day, life is all about relationships, experience and compassion.

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I'm 34 and agree with everything except being in a relationship at 25. I think that's an ok place to start. That's when I had my first long term and I learned a lot. Still single, still don't have kids. I'm seeing other people do it, and it doesn't look fun.

solid advice 9/11

what about to invest in an A grade rope, for those times when you feel you had enough of this world?

the cheap ones are really shitty

>25

I was gonna post 26-27 but here's my only hang up with that, dudes tend to have a more clear idea of what direction they wanna go. Chicks on the other hand....that changes more often than the weather. If an user gets talked into getting married by his 22 yr old gf, and he does it cause he doesn't wanna be a foreveralone fag, then I'd feel like we failed him.

I'll agree though, the age thing is flexible, and will be specific to the person.

Young fag here, more advice pls

if youre gonna an hero, do the exit bag thing

Juice nigger
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Finding a tall bridge is cheaper

Why tho

Surely there's more of you that can offer advice, bump.

Stop being whiny little bitches. Fuck you safe spaces and grow a pair.

yeah we need men to man up a bit I think. it's ok to experience difficulty in life, that's life. It's not ok to be a bitch about it.

>if you're not happy, change shit. If you're still not happy, you haven't changed enough shit.

Follow op's advice and you'll turn out a loser like him.

31 here

>Read books
>take care of your teeth
>don't dwell on the past
>treat others how you want to be treated
>work on your credit, it's fucking easy

32-year-old old fag here. I mostly agree, but I'll chime in with a couple other things.

>Find a job you enjoy, but realize that you may not be able to survive doing what you really love, and it will only screw you over long term.

You might really enjoy your $30k/year career right out of college, but if there's not serious room for growth, you're going to be hurting for money quick. And it really sucks watching your friends (some of whom might be dumber than you) quickly eclipse six figures, while you're figuring out how to pay all your bills.

Work the job you're OK with for good money when you're young so you can do what you love for peanuts as a hobby when you're older.

>You really can't make people better if they don't want to be better

Most people learn relatively young that you can't help out people who are addicted to substances or really self-destructive unless they want to help themselves first, but this advice goes even further than that.

You'll probably run into friends or fall in love with people who are generally good and smart, but for whatever reason can't get their shit together to become really successful. You can try to help them, but ultimately they need to succeed on their own. You can't create a middle class mentality in someone who has lived their whole lives poor no matter what you do.

++ on the substance thing. If a person can't quit drugs to fix their own life, what makes you think that they would do it for you.

Watched my friend's life swirl down the toilet all for his heroin addicted gf.
>i have to help her user, i love her

She isn't gonna change for herself, she sure as shit isn't going to change for you.

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impressive

Im lying to myself but it's a better option than anything else
The alternative would be taking hormones for the rest of my life, getting expensive ass surgeries, dealing with legal shit and therapists, being a freak to most people and also hated by "LGBT" for not buying the groupthink, having an incredibly hard time getting a partner, and potentially mentally fucking up any kids I have unless I lie to them about something very innate to who I am. And all of this might not work how I need it to anyway.

Also I have 0 ideas about what I should do with my life and I have no sense of my capabilities. Everything I want to do Im afraid that I'll fail miserably or just drag everyone around me down. I'd like to do something with genetics but I dont think Im smart or driven enough to make it in the sciences.

My girlfriend of 5 years left me for another dude, now I feel like I have to relearn to socialize again and talk to girls, I don't find myself particularly handsome but I'm ok, I have trouble getting the courage to talk to some girls and I feel like my time is running up really fasy
22 y/o and still in uni here

59 years ad this is good advice

#1 is spot on. Do a chubby or a woman that isn't so perfect. ITs more important to get laid then it is to get laid by someone hot!

You write off a lot of tax shit if you know how and get away with it.

Relationships at an early age are fine BUT OP is right --do not rush into marriage and kids

Dude, I literally know EXACTLY how you feel. Not so much the socialising bit because I've always been good at that (I just usually don't want to because it's expensive, and everyone's a cunt), but the talking to girls (and guys to a lesser extent - I'm bi but guys are so much easier to talk to) part. I'm a good flirt but I have so many insecurities and worries about relationships that I either don't want to take it further or am scared of it.

But either way, even though I feel you on it feeling like time is running out, it isnt

UNDISCLOSED age here. Don't take advice from a self righteous key-banger voluntarily and magnanimously offering his advice on Sup Forums...
you can find this shitty advice by watching E channel or on the back of a fucking cereal box. don't b like these fuckers. live your life. fuck credit. do lots of drugs. be a bad ass. be self destructive. if you don't spend a few nights in jail you are a CUNT. this guy probably just popped a xanax or got a new prescription for hydrocodone and he's all ripped feeling like anyone gives a fuck about his pathetic wonder-bread pussy assed shit life in Omaha watching dancing with the stars and shit. faggot.

go back to facebook or reditt