Giving Advice

There are times when young ones are too embarrassed to ask for advice, but will strike up a conversation with an adult and when that happens I chat along. Often like you gifana I can use my experiences and relate them into a abbreviated story. There have been times when they have them asked for more information or actually asked what I would do under certain circumstances. Of course often they make it appear to be hypothetical, so I just tell them what I think I would do.

I always like to listen to the older ones, they are living in the same world as we but with much more god or bad experiences, good or bad stories. We learn to live listening to the advices of the ones who lived similar situations that we all go throw someday.

When someone strikes up a conversation with me, I believe that although they haven't come right out and asked my advise, they expect that I will let them know what I think. I worked at our local high school for 11 years. I loved working with the teenagers. They came from so many different walks of life. There was one young man I know of that would never had graduated had it not been for me giving him my two cents worth for 4 years! On the night he graduated, he thanked me.

I find it really hard not to give advice to people when I see them going into something the wrong way, especially when I can see it ending up rather bad. I'll say what I feel and what I think about the situation and then I try to leave it be. There are a few people that I give advice too and no one seems to listen to me, so I just say what I need to and then tell them later on what I said and how I knew it would turn out how it did. Otherwise I pretty much leave things alone if it's not really anything that I'll have to deal with too much directly.

I am sort of careful about giving advice where it wasn't asked forbut sometimes if I think the person is receptive I will sort of sneak it into the converstation in a nice way of course.