Post Some Wisdom

In the last moments of your life, you have a final chance to give a single piece of advice. Something you've learned through the ups and downs of living. Perhaps something you wish you had known when you were younger. You might be giving the advice to a loved one or to a stranger. To a young child, a teenager, or a peer. Perhaps what you say will be televised throughout the world, placed on a monument, or engraved on the first space-probe that an alien civilisation discovers.

To whom do you choose to speak? And what is the single piece of wisdom that you choose as the most important thing you've learned in your journey through life?

In the end the only things you have are stories. Everything else is borrowed. The stuff you're made of. Even time itself. Be grateful for it all. Your stories are out there no matter how much else you've been gifted by life. Seek them. Love and assist others in seeking theirs. That is as close as you'll ever find to a true purpose.

Who would I say it to? My loved ones already know, so anyone else who would listen.

I don't think I'm wise enough yet to dispense wisdom. If I had to say something to them though I'd probably tell them to worry a little less than they do. And I'd tell that to anyone I could find.

f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke.

The guy who coined the term "coined the term", coined the term.

Fishing is only relaxing because fish don’t scream like hell when pulled out of the water.

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Ripped from r/Showerthoughts

Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know.

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Don't Be A Dick.

Write it on my goddamn headstone.

Should I outlive you, what portion of your headstone do you think I'll break off?

Funny enough, I have come up with some pretty good ones over the years:
Being mature is not never being immature. Its knowing how and when to be immature.

And this Edison quote bites me constantly:
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

This one is overused but more appropriate now than ever and in more ways:
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

But there has been a recurring idea over the last 5 years or so that I think renders every other prophetic thing I have said moot:
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Grenn wrote:

Should I outlive you, what portion of your headstone do you think I'll break off?

Jokes on you, buddy. I'm donating my body to science/being pressed into vinyl, so I won't have a headstone!

Wherever you go, there you are.

Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.

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If a kid tells you they're going to throw up, believe them.

Risk calculus, humor, and knowledge are the three biggest tools you can have to deal with any and all medical conditions you may have.

When life closes a door, just open it again. It's a door. That's how they work.

Learn to question your own assumptions regularly. Back up your beliefs with references. It's a valuable work skill as well as a precursor to understanding whether the people around you are basing their own analyses of things on the real world. You'll be surprised at how valued this skill is in brain-based work. (And, sadly, not surprised at how uncommon it is in the population in general.)

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Post some Wisdom? Got it!

Am I doing it right?

"Avoid one-sentence wisdom."

You spend your entire life a student.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Memorize Invictus, and read a little of On Tyranny every day.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Keep your house clean.

Nothing is ever as bad, or as good, as it first appears.

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zinckiwi wrote:

Nothing is ever as bad, or as good, as it first appears.

This is good advice, especially applied to politicians.

When life gives you lemons demand to see life's manager.

Or if you want a real one.

Judge not with the eye but the hand.

Stealthpizza wrote:

Judge not with the eye but the hand.

How does that mesh with "look but don't touch"?