Good Advice

Advice is really only as good as the quality of the source providing it. A person can give solid advice but if their life is falling apart around them, one hesitates before following advice from such a person for fear their life will also fall apart. In a similar way, a person is not likely to happily fol;low advice form a hypocrite. Advice is best received when the giver is in a place in life the recipient wishes he/she was. I'm not a huge fan of giving advice. It's not that I don't know what to say or what 'good' advice would be. That comes pretty naturally to me. The problem is giving the advice in such a way that the recipient doesn't shut their ears to it. As much as you deny it, no one likes being told they're living life wrong, or that they should make different choices. Especially when I'm technically no further along this journey than you are. So I suppose that they're really no reason anyone should listen to me. Except for the fact that I care, even when you don't. Except for the fact that occasionally I really know what I'm talking about. Usually I understand a heck of alot more than you think I do. You may not like my advice, that's almost a given. But you can't deny that there's often wisdom in it. You can make excuses about why it doesn't apply to your life, but the truth still stands. Your opinion of my advice really affects your opinion of me. So the question remains; what is the quality of the source? Would you consider me quality?