advice

The new Chrysler 300 commercial has some great comments in it. It's all about advice and those giving it. The commercial says this... "On the way to the top everyone's got advice for you. What you're doing wrong and how to do things they've never done themselves." It goes on to explain features of the car and ends with, "You can keep the sound of doubt outside."

The commercial inspired me. It inspired the idea of advice. We all like to think we give great advice, yet we hate to receive advice from people. Maybe we don't hate to receive it, but we don't truly listen to their advice. At the end of the day we're going to do what we want to do.

"How to do things they've never done themselves." That's probably the most true aspect of advice and criticism. People love to think they know more than they actually do. People love to tell you how to do something even when they've never done it. They're more than entitled to their opinion, and they're allowed to criticize you for what you do, but at the end of the day you et to do what you want. That's what's beautiful about our life. We choose, to an extent, what goes on. We choose who we surround ourselves with. We choose what we do.

Advice is a great thing, but the best thing about advice is that after you've received some; you choose whether or not you listen to it. You always have the final say in what you do.

Obviously some advice is better to listen to. Sadly many times we don't know what advice was good advice until we've made the wrong decision. That's life.

To me, life is about making mistakes. It's about falling over and over and clinging to the things you believe in. It's about speaking your mind and being the best friend you can be. It's about being independent but having faith in others. It's about being wrong with the intentions of being right. It's loving endlessly and faithfully. Life is a lot of things, a lot of unpredictable things. Unpredictable is good though. Unpredictable makes life fun. Unpredictable makes life worth living.
NP: Yours Truly- Sol