31 Great Pieces of Advice People Have Been Given
‘Never ruin a good apology with an excuse!’
Most wise words are annoying to hear in the moment, but that doesn’t make them untrue. In fact, once you truly grasp their meaning, you’re often offering up the same platitude to someone else. One Redditor remembered the time their older friend told them, “You don’t have time, you take time,” which had a very “sure grandma, let’s get you to bed” vibe to it in the moment. But once they got older, they understood just how true it was.
Other Redditors have shared the best advice they’ve ever been given, and some of these pearls of wisdom may need to marinate in your brain goop for a while before they really sink in.