Heeding Advice

I’m sure everyone has been offered advice at some point in time, even when you didn’t ask for it. When all goes well, great, but the problem comes when the advice goes wrong or doesn’t solve the problem. Now who is to be blamed? The advisor, or the “advisee”?

For anyone to dispense advice, it goes to show that he is willing to have a personal stake in our problems when really he doesn’t have to. Just because the advice is there doesn’t mean you have to take it.

Most people who give advice do it based on their past experiences 'I wouldn’t do it if I were you', based on their preferences or based on their own prejudices. How much this applies to our situation is almost like reading about our daily horoscopes. Is this really going to happen to all the Virgos in the world? Is this really going to work for me?

Perhaps we are all afraid to make mistakes, afraid to make decisions, afraid to live with the consequences of a wrong move. That is why we seek other people’s opinions, we ask for advice, hoping to avoid other people’s mistakes, hoping to learn from other people’s lessons so that our lives will be smooth sailing. However, I think we develop strengths and principles when things don’t go our way. That is why we just have to trust our own instincts to do the thing that works for us.

If we fail, we learn, but at least we are responsible for the making of ourselves.

I've picked up the habit of reading my horoscope ad tarot cards again, it seems like something about them always facinates me. XD

Hiro is coming home next week after 3 event-filled years!! Web-cam sessions and postcards just won't cut it. Man, I missed him. Wonder how he'll come back to be.... a much more Mature (with a capitalised M, intelligent guy? Stays as crazy and impulse driven as ever? Or just being good old Hiro?
Whatever, we'll soon find out ;)