The Best Advice You’ve Ever Received

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The best advice I ever got was from my old man. I was about 7 or 8, tired and wanted to give up. Don’t even remember what we were doing.

He said “Son, all you have to do is keep putting one foot in front of the other one and you can get through anything.”

He went on to tell me that men under him died a lot of times because they gave up. That had they just kept going for one more step and then another they might still be alive.

When I was older and of teen suicide age and going through my first break up he reminded me. He said that sometimes the steps are mental.

That one line has stuck with me though my entire life. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and this too shall pass.
 
Great advice. Very similar to my own.

The one thing my dad taught me is ‘there’s no such word as “can’t”’. You’ve got to try, even if you think (or know) you might fail. To this day I will try anything because I won’t let the word “can’t” rule me....
 
Guys. We’re in off topic. Not Tortuga or the basement. Watch the language.
 
Oh I could write a book on the one liners i've been given by my elders. I got the typical never give up, always dream etc but the one that's stuck with me the longest...

Play now or play later.
 
My old man told me "inside every black man is a white man tryin ta get out." yeah my old man was a bit racist but he had good intent.

The lesson i took from that nugget of... whatever...was "you've got something in common with everybody you meet"
 
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Grandpa to me, there were so many.
Don’t start fights, but win the ones you get in.
You can ruin your own reputation, but you can’t unRuin your own reputation.
Never trust a Federal Man, no matter how nice he seems, they are always looking for our Still.
 
I was helping my buddy do a brake job on his truck, never messed with drum brakes at 16 years old. Popped the first drum off and the springs came apart, tried for an hour to put everything back together correctly and couldn’t figure it out. Tucked my tail between my legs walked inside and asked grandpa for some help. He walked and and said one simple phrase, “what would a smart man do?” My answer was “ I don’t know papaw what would you do?” He said to pull the other side off and match it up. So now when I’m not sure what to do, “what would a smart man do?”, comes to mind.
 
Dad taught me some things that are good or bad depending on how you look at things.
"quit crying, put a bandaid on if you want (he had just accidentally split my finger open and the bone was showing), and get back to work"
"If you're bored, it's because you don't have enough work to do. I have a solution for that."

And some decent advice I got from one of the worst people I've ever met: "go solve that problem". I shared that one with an underling today, but I'm nice enough to help him solve problems.
 
Dad always had a way with words. I've always regreted that I didn't inherent that trait from him.

So last year I'm helping him do something - I can't remember what it was but I was being impatient and in a hurry. Finally he stops what we're doing and tells me this jewel: "An old and young bull were watching over a herd of cows. The young bull said "let's RUN down and each make love to one." The old bull replied, "let's WALK down and make love to ALL of them."
 
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We are all just bit players in everyone else's play,,,,,remember that in how you deal with people.
 
In dealing with the cops and others in authority positions....comply now, complain later. Everyone has a boss.

In being judgmental of a guy with a fat girlfriend. "Who cares, you don't have to F her."

In being judgmental of a recently uncloseted homosexual... did you like him before you knew? He's going to hell regardless, but that doesn't mean you don't have to love him like any other neighbor. No sense in you going to hell with him.
 
Do it right or don’t do it at all.
 
From a regional manager I had many years ago and that I respected. When I quit the company, I wrote a cordial and very business focused explanation, that he received. He quit 2 weeks later. This statement carried me through many successful years in the computer industry and was how I worked with various managers.

Don't bring me a problem without bringing me a solution.
 
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When i was fairly young my dad sat me down and told me that I wasnt special and no one cared about me and when a person dies only 5-10 people will be truly devastated by it.

It sounds like crappy advice but as he went on to explain the world doesnt revolve around you and no one owes you anything so suck it up and make your own way.
 
Bob Care and I were replacing a main waterline at a house. I'd work for him most weekends.
This weekend it was raining and raining hard. The lady didn't have any water and we needed to get it done.
I was having a hard time with the rain/ mud / sticky clay . Bitching , complaining. I just wanted to give up.
He says " This ain't nothing, Its all a matter of what you've been thru already" and proceeds to tells me this story;
Vietnam War, they are working up a hill and it starts raining. It got so slippery they couldn't keep climbing up and going back down was not an option. He slid down to a tree and straddled it so he didn't have to keep trying to hang onto the mad and leaves. He said he was there for 2 days before the rain stopped.

" it's all a matter of where you been and what you've gone thru"
" we'll be done today and home tonight "
 
When i was fairly young my dad sat me down and told me that I wasnt special and no one cared about me and when a person dies only 5-10 people will be truly devastated by it.

It sounds like crappy advice but as he went on to explain the world doesnt revolve around you and no one owes you anything so suck it up and make your own way.
Sounds a lot like this'n:

"Boy, this vessel ran before you got here, and it'll run after you're gone," Captain Roy Campbell, Tug Whitefoot.
 
Don’t buy rental cars
Don’t date strippers
And never, under an circumstances, trust a fart



Those are words to live by
 
Settle up before you settle down.
If you can’t pay cash you don’t need it.
Big girls needs loving too and will be the most loyal.
You have 2 ears and 1 mouth. You should listen twice as much as you talk.
Im not as cool as your friends but I’ll always will do what’s best for you even though you may not see it until years later.
Family is forever, others will come and go.
You will only have a handful of true friends in you life. The rest are just people you know.
Good fences make good neighbors.
 
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