Patrick Alan

I like advice. I want everyone to give me advice. Then I can then ignore them. That’s the fun part.

Everyone wants to give advice. Even me. The difference is mine is always correct. What you need to do is listen to all of it and then ignore all of it.

This goes for all advice, whether it be marriage, raising children, cat tossing, writing, having an agent, critique groups, or cooking bbq.

It’s advice. You’ll always get conflicting advice. Both sides think they are right. And they are. You need to decide which one is the right one for you. It may take some experimentation.

Sometimes advice is over done. Like if you four time divorced uncle Bob tells you women are evil. Well, that’s true. Err. Well, not completely evil. Bob probably had something to do with it, because as you know, Bob is kind of a unique case.

This does not mean that Bob is bad and wrong and that you shouldn’t listen to his advice. Well, maybe not his advice, but his experience. You hear what he is telling you happened. That’s where you learn not when he tells you never get married.

This is my advice on advice. Think. You know, you might be like Bob. Maybe you shouldn’t get married. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t date. That doesn’t mean that talking to women would kill you.