I haven't read the entire thread, apologies on that.
While I can relate to wanting to always make the best decisions, life is to be lived. I would say make mistakes and learn the solid lessons while young.
I am sure many of us can relate to the following. Someone tells you doing xyz is bad, but you are still curious. You do xyz, you realize they were right, but the lesson is burned into you. Sometimes advice without the experience (not the experience of the person giving the advice - the experience of the person gets from taking an action), leaves the lesson incomplete. Actually, it isn't even a lesson because there was nothing teachable.
So don't spend all your (general not OP specific) trying to figure stuff out, sometimes you just gotta do it and live it.
Edit: But for the more practical.
1) Learn to think for yourself
2) Learn to be self-reliant
3) Create your own stream of income
4) See and touch all you can early on, so you can focus on what you want out of life. Some of us have dreams about certain things, but we have never touched or felt it. We think it will be an xyz experience but when we get there we realize it is not. But spent years building towards it.
While I can relate to wanting to always make the best decisions, life is to be lived. I would say make mistakes and learn the solid lessons while young.
I am sure many of us can relate to the following. Someone tells you doing xyz is bad, but you are still curious. You do xyz, you realize they were right, but the lesson is burned into you. Sometimes advice without the experience (not the experience of the person giving the advice - the experience of the person gets from taking an action), leaves the lesson incomplete. Actually, it isn't even a lesson because there was nothing teachable.
So don't spend all your (general not OP specific) trying to figure stuff out, sometimes you just gotta do it and live it.
Edit: But for the more practical.
1) Learn to think for yourself
2) Learn to be self-reliant
3) Create your own stream of income
4) See and touch all you can early on, so you can focus on what you want out of life. Some of us have dreams about certain things, but we have never touched or felt it. We think it will be an xyz experience but when we get there we realize it is not. But spent years building towards it.
Fate whispers to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the storm." And the warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."
Women and children can be careless, but not men - Don Corleone
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