I am turning 18 tomorrow. Any life advice for me
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This was reported twice for not being a shower thought. The reporters are correct, it’s not strictly a shower thought.
But thinking about getting older is something we all do in the shower, for multiple reasons :)
Looks like people are mostly enjoying it so I’ll let it stay for now.
Thinks about 18 year olds in the shower
Mods get them!
I think that’s legal… Barely
Here’s my rantomendation:
Don’t hit, mame or kill anybody ever. That includes when driving.
When driving pay attention to the road and only to the road. Ignore work or home or school problems. Don’t zone out.
Listen to your parents but don’t listen to the parts that limit you. Be gay if you are or straight or smart or whatever, be you. But listen to the good advice.
Fuck a lot
Eat healthy
Pay attention in school and learn from others. Be observant and follow in other people’s steps long enough to learn to blaze your own path.
Don’t get a school loan or max out your credit cards.
Work thru school in a light non interrupting way. Don’t get an 8hr job, just something part time.
Get that diploma and go find a job where they pay you for what you know. Work on something you like to do. Work to live, not live to work. But to get here, don’t skip steps…sweep the floor before you shoot for CEO.
Mourn your losses, everyone dies. Be happy with yours while you can. Family is everything and there’s not much more than your own personal desires beyond family. But if you don’t have kids by chance or by choice, still be happy. There’s plenty of people who choose not to have kids or be married or be in a relationship. Have bobbies. There’s a lot of you time towards the end part of your life. So Hobbies are good. Watching people is a hobby.
Be at peace. Don’t hate and help others not hate. Racism is the worse. So if you can help a racist person to accept others then that’s good.
Fuck a lot
Shit
That’s from “little Ms.Sunshine” you should watch it. There’s a part when they’re riding with their Gramps and he says that. Ode to gramps
Do you know what the genetic difference is between a human alive today and one who lived 100,000 years ago? Almost none.
The real difference is shared knowledge. Every generation stands on the shoulders of those before it. You hold in your hands more understanding than any person in history could have imagined.
You will always be ignorant, not as a flaw, but as a truth of being human. Accepting that is where real learning begins.
Stay curious. Curiosity keeps you open to the world. It grows empathy, invites wonder, and reminds you that every person you meet carries a piece of the story you haven’t heard yet.
And when you share what you’ve learned, don’t speak as though you hold the final word. Speak as someone who has explored, reflected, and arrived at their understanding with care.
Learning is a lifelong conversation, one that connects you to every curious mind that ever lived. So keep asking, keep listening, keep growing. The future needs you.
Sit down pee when you’re visiting a friend’s house. Double points if you do the same at your own house.
Use sunscreen.
Break stuff and figure things out, take chances and have fun. You’ve got time. You’ll figure it out.
Take care of your teeth. Many loves will come and go in your 20s and maybe even 30s, but if its a life partner you want try focusing on yourself and they’ll appear out of thin air. Friends are important but not as important as inner peace. If a job offer 401k start investing as much as possible as soon as possible. Everyone is going through their own crazy messed up life so be kind. Puff, puff pass and enjoy your 20s as much as possible while not losing sight of your goals. Goals are EVERYTHING, set the achieve them and set them again. Heartbreak and death are integral parts of being human. It’s important to sit with and process the pain as long as YOU see fit. Death will come for someone you love someday, don’t let drugs or alcohol be your medicine
As someone who wishes someone had told me… Adults don’t know what we are doing either. It took me way too long to realize I’m not an imposter pretending to be an adult, we are all just kind of winging it.
As you grow older you’ll have seen more stuff and it will be a little easier, but I can attest I don’t have a clue what’s for dinner, just like I don’t know what new headache the next meeting will bring. Live life for life’s sake, the clock will keep ticking whether you’re ready or not.
Don’t drink and smoke.
Don’t put your dick in crazy
Learn to shop, cook and eat without highly procesed foods
Clean the toilet when you are done
Adding to this:
Save as much as you can. One day, you’ll need it.
Take care of your teeth. It’s the only set you get, and it sucks when you start having problem.
Drink water. Lots. You do not want to experience a kidney stone.
Save as much as you can… but don’t skimp out on quality of life.
Too many people I’ve see pinch pennies to save only to end up dead or in a place that couldn’t enjoy it. Make sure to take time out for yourself while you can before it’s too late
Basically mine would be “all things in moderation”
It’s okay to be scared, but do it anyway!
Buy a plunger BEFORE you need one
On a related note, own a fire extinguisher before you need one.
Also learn how to use both before you need to.
wisdom is often wasted on the elderly. youth is fleeting as are most the mistakes you will make in life at this point.
the following advice is fitting unless you’re doing either of these two things:
- making babies
- taking a life (especially your own)
Live the three truths
- you will always make mistakes
- you will always hurt those you love
- you will always have regrets.
the older you get the harder it is to recover from these truths. Live your life to your requirements. By the time you’re closing in on your 30s, you should start to settle down and find yourself a quiet place to build your life for when you’re in your 50s or 60s.
in your 30s seek out happiness and contentment. this will be your foundation to accept your regrets and mistakes. own the mistakes you made along the way, accept them like you would a bruise or blemish on your body. in time they will heal, if only you accept them and move on.
in your 40s harvest your happiness and contentment. accept there are things you cannot do not because you haven’t or couldn’t but because you shouldn’t.
in your 50s store your happiness and contentment with the knowledge that nobody can take it from you, it’s yours and yours alone.
60+ feed your soul from your stores, using the memories you made along the way. depending on the life you have led, share in new memories with those around you. celebrate their successes as your successes.
if you’re lucky you will build lasting relationships along the way and will have many fond memories. you will inevitability have bad memories as well, but such is life.
personally I lost every single friend I have ever had. I never really recovered from it and now I have no friends. It’s one of many regrets, but I never let it spoil my happiness and contentment. I find fulfillment by other means like hobbies, crafting, and family.
I never wanted to be married or have kids, but it feels as if what you think is important today changes by tomorrow. don’t fight it, because you’ll only be fighting yourself.
life is full of surprises, learn to roll with the punches and adapt to the world. if you don’t, life will fucking kill you.
Your brain still isn’t fully developed into an adult one. Another half decade or so should equip you with the rest. Take care of it!
If it’s wet and ain’t yours, really think about it before you touch it.
Bring a towel.
Be a goldfish.
There’s probably only one play on this quarter. Don’t look back and think “what if…”
Go to Church every Sunday
Religions are fairy tales for children who are afraid of death. They have nothing to do with reality. There is no god and no rational reason to believe in one. Part of growing up is accepting that.
There is no god and no rational reason to believe in one.
Except from that guy who did miracles and stuff and rose from the dead
That guy is a character in a book that wasn’t written until decades after his supposed death. And those stories that made it into the book were knowingly cherry picked and modified to fit a narrative that the Romans wanted to push at the time.
The only “evidence” he rose from the dead was that someone wrote down that someone told someone else that they knew of a few people that saw an empty cave a few days after they had stuffed a corpse in it. And said book also contains a contradicting story about the same event.
So not exactly screaming reliable primary source…
There’s more evidence that Spider-Man exists/ed.
That guy is a character in a book that wasn’t written until decades after his supposed death.
Wait until you hear about most of history… A lot of people we think we know were written CENTURIES after their death.
And those stories that made it into the book were knowingly cherry picked and modified to fit a narrative that the Romans wanted to push at the time.
That they were occupiers and killed the son of God? yikes
The only “evidence” he rose from the dead was that someone wrote down that someone told someone else that they knew of a few people that saw an empty cave a few days after they had stuffed a corpse in it.
No, some of the writings were first hand eyewitnesses, the rest were people who personally knew numerous people who saw Him.
And said book also contains a contradicting story about the same event.
No it doesn’t.
There’s more evidence that Spider-Man exists/ed.
No, because Spider Man is never claiming to be a true story and nobody ever claimed to be Spiderman. We also have a name - Stan Lee - who wrote the story and has no qualms saying it is fake. 2 billion people around the world don’t believe in Spiderman.
A story claiming to be true does not make it more true than one that doesn’t make that claim.
But if that’s your sticking point, Lord of the Rings. It claims to be a translation of a true story. Was Frodo real?
A story claiming to have eye witnesses to events doesn’t mean there were any, the author can say anything that makes their work sound more believable, and given that there were no other documents making those completely unbelievable claims, they remain unbelievable fictions.
It kind of sound like you are unaware of the council of nicaea…where they decided to make Jesus a divine figure, and not just a prophet, among other stories they twisted and chose to suit their needs. We may not know their exact names, but we know the group and the months they met to write this book.
A story claiming to have eye witnesses to events doesn’t mean there were any, the author can say anything that makes their work sound more believable,
If you apply this logic to everything, history falls apart. The New Testament being written by someone who was around at the time and lived close to the events is quite apparent.
and given that there were no other documents making those completely unbelievable claims, they remain unbelievable fictions.
What do you mean “no other documents”? Apart from what? The documents making the claims?
What I essentially believe you’re saying is “apart from the documents making those claims, there are no other documents making those claims”. That doesn’t make any sense at all.
It kind of sound like you are unaware of the council of nicaea…where they decided to make Jesus a divine figure, and not just a prophet, among other stories they twisted and chose to suit their needs. We may not know their exact names, but we know the group and the months they met to write this book.
I am fully aware of it, seemingly more than you since you’re regurgitating Tiktok nonsense.
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The belief in Jesus’ divinity predates the Council of Nicæa. The Bible literally refers to Him as God several times. Even in the Old Testament at some points. And even in addition from that, it’s clear He is not just a prophet, but the Prophecied Messiah
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We know who a lot of them were. Such as St Nicholas, St Athanasius and Arius (the reason the meeting was caused)
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The council of Nicæa didn’t write any biblical book. It had very little to do with the Bible. They wrote the Nicene Creed which isn’t in the Bible, but an interpretation of the text and summary of the belief. Also possibly the Athanasius Creed. The New Testament was already completed by the early Second century at the latest
You’re being purposely obtuse now.
There’s no other documents even alluding to the man’s existence besides the book of completely unbelievable bullshit fairy tales.
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If you’re looking to waste both time, and money, sure.
Going to church is free 🤨 what church did you go to?
