Is the Best Advice the Same for Everyone?
Regardless of your job, gender or life stage, there is only one thing that matters
The best advice I was given as a teenager was to get to know myself. My own thoughts and opinions, my own ambitions, and dreams. I was urged to forget everyone else and search for myself in amongst the noise. For a teenager drowning in hormones and family drama, that was easy said than done.
The best advice I was given as a mother was to ignore all the external opinions and just follow my instincts, but for a young first-time mum desperately wanting to do the ‘right’ thing, that wasn’t always easy.
The best advice I was given as a writer was to find my own unique voice, to write the things I almost couldn’t help but write about, to follow my own flow and trust where it would lead me. Yet when you a starting out, sometimes being liked feels like it matters more than being uniquely you.
At each stage in my life there has been a persistent echo in the voices that have given me advice. Whether unwanted or sort out, it always seems to boil down to, no one knows you or your path better than you. But can it actually be that simple.
We tend to hate simple answers to big questions, don’t we?
