If you listen very carefully..

I agree with exception. I've had the conversation with some youthful ones that are the know it all types that throw my age at me. I wasn't that way at their age I absorbed what the elders were talking about. But I had friends that were that would say he's an old man what does he know? Oh so clueless missing the advantage of wise.
It does no good to let them know everyday they're another day older and if they're under 21-22 that their brain is still maturing.
Yeah the advice I give them I beat through my own head ages ago.
What saddens me the most is the education system influence and indoctrination instead of teaching the basics and how to use them to learn and think for themselves rather than parrot what propaganda they hear as the truth.

True. Each time I wander off...I hear the things I say here to others.

Ain't none of us perfect that's for sure.

We are preaching before practicing, but we are trying to get there