Posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Eagles Field
And why?
You don’t have any sense unail you’re 30, and if you don’t have any by then you never will.
That may be the secret to contentment, but not to happiness.
crickets
Not advice, per se, but my father was fond of observing that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’.
Do what you think is right, and stand by your decision.
My mom and dad have been gone for over 20 years. I still miss them as much as the day they died; many things remind me of them.
You never get over it. You learn to live with it but never get over it.
“Always cut with the grain’’.
3. “With your 40 hours a week, keep a roof over your head, the lights in the kitchen on, the food on the table, and clothes on your back, before you buy a magazine or a paperback book.”
The only advice that reveals the character flaw of the advice giver. The belittling of literacy as a noble human trait. Impossible to explain this item as rational.
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I consider this item extremely rational. The father is advising to assure the necessities of life before indulging in relaxation and unnecessary things. I imagine his reference to “paperback book” was a reference to “dime novels” otherwise known as pulp fiction. These were not particularly “educational.”
To be a man you must have honor and courage. Other things are nice, but without honor and courage you are not a man.
My husband told our kids when they finished high school they had to go to college, get a job, or join the military. He started telling them that when they were too little to know what it meant. They are all productive citizens.
You are right. My Mother died 37 years ago from cancer and I miss her everyday also.
Go to college and get an engineering degree was his best advice.
my dad sold industrial chemicals made by a small specialty chemical company in Chattanooga, TN to textile and carpet mills throughout SC/NC/VA/GA in the 60’s-80’s. When I was about ten I traveled with him for about a week and got tours of the mills that he called on.
This was during the era of Norma Rae, which BTW, was not an exaggeration of the mill conditions and the way the mill workers were treated by the mill owners. He told me I’d end up in the cotton mills if I didn’t go to college. Seeing several cotton mills up close and personal made a REALLY BIG impression at ten years old.
From then on, I was on track to go to college and get an engineering degree. (I ended up with two computer science degrees instead, but pretty much the same difference.)
“Next time use the G*dd*mn things.” After my girfiend had her period after we thought she was pregnant.
My dad was an uncouth ass.
I beg to disagree. What my father was telling me was that instinct often sees past the “obvious,” to trust my inner feelings over the outward appearances that seemed to be just fine. Many times in my life I have followed that advice and he was right.
There are many “degrees” of happiness, just as there are many degrees of success. I have been blessed in both largely due to the wise counsel of both my parents when I was young and their insistence that I always think for myself.
“If you smoke a cigarette I’ll beat the he’ll out of you.”
“Don’t point that gun at anything you don’t mean to shoot, and keep your damn finger off the trigger.”
“It’s better to spend money on quality food than on doctor bills.” (and this was in the 60’s and 70’s!)
Some days you’re down, some days you’re up.....
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
I learned that one the hard way
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