Advice is interesting. Often given, rarely taken. Generally speaking the person who is giving the advice (the “advisor”) is doing it with the sincere intention of influencing the recipient of the advice (the “advisee”) into acting (or not acting) in a more thoughtful way than they are intending, but usually, in my experience at either end of the advisor-advisee continuum, the advisee will do what they were going to do anyway.
Does this mean that the advice was useless? No! Now when everything goes to hell the advisee will be more easily able to determine the reason. Instead of lying there whimpering “I don’t understand! What went wrong? It hurts!” they will be able to say “Well, I guess [advisor] was right! I sure learned something!” (if they are still alive).
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