Advice for my younger self

Keep moving.

Let the future grab and pull you forward and upward (spiral).

Don’t allow a certain (negative or positive) event or people to define you.

Hang on to your guitar, your camera, your pen, tools which help you in good and bad times.

Money is still the root of all evil as it has always.

Don’t feel bad if you are not born into money, or won’t end up with a lot.

Just enjoy the moment – your childhood was a bit unusual, in that you were born into a family of 4 adults (much older siblings). Turn your loneliness into joy, abandonment into empathy.

Use everything.

Harness them, let nothing go to waste i.e. agony, anger, poison, toxicity… in family or at work.

Strengthen yourself one atom and one second at a time. Waste not time.

What comes around will always come around. Guard yourself and believe in yourself always. Hang on to your immediate families, through thick and thin. Rush not to judgment or to please others e.g. strangers always know best. Resist the blame game.

Extend and enlarge the Pause (between Stimuli & Response).

Live with the right mix of knowledge, wisdom, emotion and social smart.

Above all, survive at all costs. Time is all there is, hence, rush not to your final end: make time to listen to the kids, to music, to the voices of wisdom.

Humanity has progressed quite nicely, hence, re-invent not the wheel. Every thought and idea perhaps has been in existence and is at your disposal, thanks to the invention called Networked World.

You’ll see. A lille heartbreak here, a huge setback there, will all come to pass.

Embrace and forget not those moments that stood out above all others e.g. in a cross-hair when parents were in a heated argument; hence, the natural tendency is to blame yourself or think you are the one at fault (or wanting to self-incriminate, to be a martyr for the sake of group harmony).

That’s your life, your narrative and your make-up. Love yourself then give it away at each passing moment. Can’t keep it, might as well share it. He who is not afraid to lose that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. You’ll find out, the more you lose, the more you live.