Mom's "Best" Advice

[impressive]

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What was yours?

 

[cloudy]

I don't know how many times I heard "It's just as easy to marry a rich man as it is to marry a poor man."

Too bad I didn't listen.

 

[impressive]

I got: "Nice girls don't lay down with boys."

(Of course, I took that literally -- and fucked standing up or sitting -- or laid down with girls.)

 

[SeaCat]

It's not easy trying to narrow it down to just one or two. Between the two of them my parents had cornered both common sense and brains. (My mother may be a tad short on formal education, having grown up during W.W.2 in Germany, but she can make college educated people look like the village idiot quite easily.)

A piece of advice she gave me when I first started dating a young lady from Isreal, as well as when I started dating again and met my now wife. "If you feel that stongly attracted to her go for it. So what if her family doesn't like it. You're not going after the family, just her. (I am most definately a Gentile and the young Isreali lady's parents weren't overly leased by her seeing me. Things changed. I still talk to her family about once a month over the Internet. They have met my wife and love her to death.)

Another piece of advice I took to heart was one she gave me when I got out of the hospital when I was 17. (I went into the hospital after a car accident when I was 16.) Enjoy life as much as you can, have fun, and don't worry about what other people think of you.

Cat

 

[lucky-E-leven]

You can do anything you set your mind to. ~My Mom

 

[Halo_n_horns]

The following words are going to be etched into my mother's gravestone...

"Ya never know..."

Thanks, mom.

 

[BlackShanglan]

"Don't bray back at a jackass, dear. People might forget who is whom."

Her best advice, though, wasn't in her words. I watched her and my father both sweat their way through graduate degrees while I was a child. It demonstrated their respect and value for education in a way that little else could have.

Shanglan

 

[TheEarl]

"Don't bray back at a jackass, dear. People might forget who is whom."

The piece of advice that should be offered to everyone on an internet message board.

The Earl

 

[Dar~]

Don't be afraid to love your self first.
Don't stay married for the kids, they know when things aren't right.
Don't hate.

 

[angelicminx]

Dump him, dump him now. (I didn't listen.)

Get all of your ducks in a row, the rest will fall into place on its own.

Make damned sure you want to keep him, because marriage is for life. (I didn't listen to alot of sage advice... sigh)

Finish writing my story now, the market is great and if anyone can do it you can.

 

[impressive]

... if anyone can do it you can.

Ooooo ... I got this from my dad, may he R.I.P. Nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

 

[Guest]

"the most important thing in life is to know your heart. Laugh and enjoy because life is too damn short." ~so sayeth vella's mom just before she died.

so sayeth me to my kids...
"laughter turns to tears, if you aren't mindful."~when they wrestle.

 

[BlackShanglan]

The piece of advice that should be offered to everyone on an internet message board.

Indeed. Sometimes I am repeating it quietly to myself as I hit the "delete" button on an ill-considered post.

 

[3 Legged Donkey]

"Don't bray back at a jackass, dear. People might forget who is whom."

Shanglan

Oi! I resemble that remark.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

You can do anything you set your mind to. ~My Mom

Best AV on the site. Congrats

 

[Colleen Thomas]

This too shall pass.

You don't believe it at the time, but it has resonance when you look back and view all the things that seemed so awful at the time in retrospect.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Oi! I resemble that remark.

And very nicely you do. No one could mistake me for you; you've got that special charm that only a three-legged donkey could.

Now do have a bit of this nice alfalfa ... plenty to share.

 

[BlackShanglan]

This too shall pass.

You don't believe it at the time, but it has resonance when you look back and view all the things that seemed so awful at the time in retrospect.

*nods* Mine reminded me, actually, of a scene in one of my favorite books. It's when Bilbo and the dwarves are lost in the forest and Bilbo climbs a tree to try to see if they are anywhere near the edge. What he doesn't realize is that the tree is at the bottom of a gradual slope and that his view is only of the bowl-shaped depression it's sitting in. They're actually quite close to the edge of the forest, but the odd perspective keeps him from realizing it. Life, she explained, was often like that. What seems overwhelming will also soon pass.

Shanglan

 

[cantdog]

Said when ANYONE said, "I have no choice..."

"You always have a choice. You just don't like them."

 

[elfin_odalisque]

"the most important thing in life is to know your heart. Laugh and enjoy because life is too damn short." ~so sayeth vella's mom just before she died.

Your mom was so right.