Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
“An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation”, this is how Cambridge Dictionary defines advice.
There is always something that you can receive without having to pay anyone at any time – advice. We are all offered advice, solicited or unsolicited. We are even rendered advice by our adversary, to keep off him, lest we take a beating.
So what is the value of advice? As the funny proverb says, people in their right sense do not requires advise, while the idiot will not even listen to it. So why waste time on this fruitless exercise?
With so many wise guys out there it’s only a matter of time before you run into some advice. But the worst type is the one, you met on the flight and offered you advice after advice. He was so full of knowledge on everything from how pointless it is to wear the seat belts, to why you should never fly an Airbus and choose Boeings instead, to what you can do best at your destination. This dude, so full of the very best advice, wouldn’t even allow me the breathing space to have a meal, or take that little kip I usually take during a three hour flight, to prepare for the long day ahead. On getting to know what I worked as, he debunked a truckload of useful advice on how I could work better – his way.
By the time I reached Mumbai, my destination, I was so stuffed with the choosiest that it felt a bit giddy. And as we got off, I was in no position to even feel the outrage, to know that I was being advised by an unemployed guy on his very first flight and visiting Mumbai for the first time, not to mention that he wasn’t even aware that the city no longer was called Bombay.
Thank you very much.
Not that I am new to advices. I am offered quite a few, every day, on how to dress, how to behave with my secretary at work etc. My wife seems always to have some very brightest of ideas and in admiration I did tell her to jot them down for posterity. Women are not good sports, are they?
The very best advice I receive are from the internet and from the media. Over the last one year I have been fervently searching for the meaning of the prophetic sounding advice I got online. “It’s very expensive to eat 3 times a day. Wake up later, miss breakfast, and save money”.