Here’s What Hard Times Taught Me About The Uselessness Of Life Advice

I have been told many times by my grandfather lessons that he learnt in life.

He would be telling me these longwinded tails as I disrespected him by not paying full attention.

Thinking to myself naively “what does this old man know about my life?”

“He has no idea how to fix my problem”

“He never had it hard like me”

And I was right, his life lessons were useless but that’s because I was listening to the wrong parts and he was telling me the wrong points of focus.

The 3 Parts Of Life Advice

When I look back onto the countless late nights talking to my grandfather about life. Where I would lay it all to bear on him my struggles, my fears and my doubts I would seemingly get back some long story from him that didn’t ever seem to get to the point that I felt was actionable.

In hindsight it was always buried in amongst the countless detailed stories of his life where he would conclude with a pity saying like.

“And that has always been the dream for my children and grandchildren…