Practice what you preach.

 

Birdy

 

There are some people, I’m sure we all know of at least one, who are always full of advice. Always.

Without fail, you can count on them to have some remedy, or to have the know-how to fix something or some situation. However, it is difficult for you, or anyone to take them seriously, because their own lives are hot messes, which leaves everyone silently wondering:

 ”Well, if you don’t take your own advice, why should I?”

Nothing is worse than having to hold a straight face in a social gathering when you hear your friend spout advice galore, especially when you have first hand knowledge that he/she does NOT EVER employ these gems into the crown that is his/her own life. 

Especially when it comes to relationship advice. There are these people who always know what YOU should do even though they are in a worse position than you are. Well if your advice is so great then why don’t you take it dammit?

I know a beautiful young woman, with a very bright future, who decided to saddle her self with a young *cough* gentleman. She continues to subject herself to countless embarrassments and heartaches – all in the name of ‘love’. I always found it hard to take her seriously when she complains of one travesty or the other, because it was inevitable that any advice that she received would go through one ear and out through the next, and she’d end up right at square one – a beautiful doormat that some random nonentity would constantly wipe his feet upon, pearls of wisdom thrown to the wayside.

Yet it never fails to intrigue me when I hear this same young lady sit and “counsel” her peers about the same things that I have spoken to her about since time began. She regurgitates it word for word, and I can see the other person listening intently to these stolen words, as if the she herself had gone through life’s struggles and knows that the worth of such advice came from application.

Advice is so much easier for one to absorb when one knows that the person who is giving it has used it themselves.

If you don’t practice what you preach, then you clearly don’t believe that there is any value to what you are saying, so why pass it on? You just look like you are throwing stones, while living comfortably in your glass house. 

Give advice when you’re practicing what you preach, and ask for advice when you are ready to receive it. 

Forward ever…

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