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I was watching a reality TV show last week and the cast visited an elderly home. While they were giving the grannies and gramps free makeovers and haircuts, they chatted with the them, asking about their younger years.

This reminded me of conversations with my own grandparents, as well as with those who I got to meet occasionally. Stories of triumphant love that leave you in awe, to heart-wrenching series of mishaps that breaks your heart to pieces – every single one is special, fascinating and entertaining enough that merits attentions from local teleserye producers’.

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Their stories were unique yet, at the same time, similar in certain ways. Here are some of the things we can learn from the seasoned set of society:

 

Don’t Belittle Small Stuff

Everything starts small. From successful businesses to fame, things have got to start somewhere to get somewhere. One of my favorite stories is of a poor couple who started off with just a box of used car parts. The husband is a hardworking and trustworthy man who would humbly go on a daily door-to-door selling. The wife, on the other hand, is a smart and shrewd lady. She continuously found ways to cut down their household expenses, and thereby increasing their savings. Years later, they were in a very good position to finance and operate one of the dealerships of a prestigious car brand.

Similarly, most bad things don’t happen overnight. I mean, nobody really aspires to become a thief, a mistress, a gambler or a drug addict someday. Most of the time, if not always, it starts from “taking home” office supplies, careless and unwise flirting, a game or two at the casino, or time spent with the wrong crowd. It’s also the “little” wrong decisions and compromises that distort a person’s principles and standards that eventually lead to tragic ends.

 

Choose Your Advisors

Apparently, not all advices are worth heeding.  The people around you may mean well but, their actual knowledge about the subject and their set of moral standards have much to do with the real worth of their “words of wisdom”.

Choose the people whose words you trust from the way they live their current life and the direction they are headed to. But then again, no situations are exactly the same (the personalities involved are always different, the timing is different, etc.) so do some thinking of your own. And pray! Ask for God’s wisdom and guidance. Only He has the power over the unforeseen and the uncontrollable.

 

Marry the Right Person

I read from a magnet once, “The person you marry will determine 80% of the kind of life you will live”. Well said. I mean, can you imagine being excited to go home to a grouchy person? Or hope to raise a good family with a partner with no integrity? Or expect support on fulfilling your life dreams from an indifferent partner? Enough said.

Sooner than we realize, we too will be asked about how we lived our younger years. Now what kind of story would we want to tell?

 

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