What’s The Best Advice You Ever Gave To Someone?

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ― Maya Angelou

Gurpreet Dhariwal
Shortwise
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3 min readApr 4, 2023

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” ― Francis Bacon

Well, to be honest, I used to advise my friends, and they treated me as an insane creature. After discarding them from my life, I realized the biggest friend I ever had was me.

So, now, I advise myself.

I tell myself to be myself no matter what. I question myself a lot of things like ‘Am I doing well’, ‘Is there something that needs to be fixed’, ‘What is it that I don’t like and need to change about myself and what is it that I like the most and should keep on continuing doing that’.

This kind of self-introspection talk has helped me a lot in realizing who I am. Social media stupid posts or people with low IQ levels can never be my people. I live my life authentically and luckily; I am not the only one. I have met many by now who are my role models and trust me I haven’t even written posts about them yet. But I worship them…

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Gurpreet Dhariwal
Shortwise

Author of Four books. Domestic Violence Survivor, Domestic Violence Counsellor @BTSADV, Sketcher, Dog Lover, Poet. www.gurpreetdhariwal.com/