Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The futility of advise

There is certain sense of defeat when giving advice to others or youngsters more so when you feel that one has gone through enough mistakes and can make a compelling wise enough argument to articulate their learnings with a pointed features which can sure be drilled into the receptor. This is the methodology most of the authors use with varied examples and lucid examples which sort of make a dent in the readers or listeners mind once they are going through it. The same has happened to me since I have read through umpteen number of books and videos which offer advice on a platter which just needs to be followed!

And therein lies the rub, it just can't be followed like that. e.g. one can't just take a mediation or art of living course which sort of helps in one's mental wellbeing. One needs to feel that need to really try make sense of it. I can't just advise my sibling to go back to America once she has retuned due to a personal tragedy and feels emotionally inept to make any decision, just because I have observed other people going through the same experiences and learnt from it. 

I feel one has to keep the learnings in mind and go through some experiential realization which thrust one to seek a path. 

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