Reacting To Old People’s Life Advice

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. Today we have an awesome idea, great, great job on this one, buddy. But today we're going to be reading old people's most honest life advice. And I do want to say before we start that this is a rabbit hole that I do fall down to fall down in on TikTok a bunch. And it's just old people talking about like all the regrets and things like that and it makes me cry and I enjoy that. So let's get into that. Let's go. This is an 89 year old woman from Australia and she says by that concert ticket, I promise you won't remember the money, but you'll remember the night. This is such good advice and it is something that does resonate with me because I do have, I'm actually currently going through something like that where you want to balance saving and investing and things like that. But you also can't lose sight of why you're working so hard. Like you're working so hard not to have money. Not like you are working hard to have money, but it's not the end goal. Like I'm working hard to have money to have financial security. And then you keep going and then you eventually get to so I can enjoy myself. So along the way, it is okay to enjoy yourself. Your life doesn't have to be hell until you retire and then you could start enjoying your life because when you're younger and able bodied and you have more energy, now's the time to kind of get those things out of the way. So traveling or going to the concert and things like that. I'm always reminded of hearing older people like this say things like that. I'm like, I wish I did more or whatever and I desperately don't want to become one of those people. I think that's great advice and it kind of covers this umbrella idea of don't lose sight of why you're working so hard. You're working so hard to have financial security. So of course you could set up your life and your children's lives and maybe have a home or your rent and apartment and have those things, but you do deserve to have fun along the way. So sometimes you just got to fuck it. That one hurt, but I'll have a great night. It's worth it. This is a 92 year old man from Germany. My advice for young couples is that sex gets better when you stop trying to perform and just start trying to connect with the other person. Wow. That is great advice. Right. Just because Europeans are so horny. I'm imagining someone like on TikTok walking up to a 92 year old guy and being like, can you give me some life advice and he just starts talking about fucking like you're expecting him to be like, oh, you know, you got to live it up or whatever. And he's like, yo, stop trying to jack hammer chicks. Really think about their needs and be gentle with it and like mix it up a little bit. And if they like a little whatever, find that out and you do that, you know, like that's his advice. But that is good advice. When you're young and you're casually having sex, most young men's experience and I think that the women can attest to this, it's kind of like, I, you're thinking about like, just don't come. You know, it's like the one thing and you're not necessarily thinking about anyone's needs or your own. You're like, I just need to look like I know what I'm doing. And that's not the game at all. I think that as you get older, you start to realize this is an important part of life. It's an important part of a relationship. And I think that if you think about your partner's needs as almost more important than your own in that moment and you both kind of have that, that would be the best scenario for sex. Like if you're thinking about their needs, they're thinking about yours. Now we're talking about something powerful there. But if you're just like, yo, I'm just gonna fucking jack hammer this to hell. No one's having fun there. All right. This is a 79 year old man from America. He said, let's stop lying to ourselves. Money can buy happiness. Just know it can't sustain happiness. This is so insane that this is in this video because literally last night I was having this conversation about if money can buy happiness. And I don't know if it's a yes or no answer because I know that celebrities who have a lot of money are like, money doesn't buy happiness. You could still be sad. And it's like, I get that. I get that. I think that money can buy certain happiness and not overall happiness. I don't think that overall happiness is for sale. I think that individually things are. So having financial security is a massive load off your back. And for a lot of people that don't have financial security, it feels like the, because it's the biggest thing. My entire life is based off of financial security. If I can't keep a roof over my head or buy food or afford to do these things, I'm not thinking about a fucking vacation. I'm not even thinking about a car or a pair of rollerblades. I'm thinking about where I have to live. So the idea that someone's going to be like, I have all the money in the world that I'm still sad. So money doesn't buy happiness. It's like, bro, fuck you. If I had financial security and I can take care of all these problems, I would then be much happier than I am now, which is true for fucking everyone. All that to say, money can buy certain happiness, but it can't buy others, which I think is obvious to people. So I don't think it's a yes or no. It's like some things for some people, of course. I do think that no matter what, if you're a miserable person and you have bad relationships in your life and you get financial security and you have a place and you have to worry about your bills or anything like that, those problems will still exist. I think if you lack some sort of self-awareness, you can look at that and go, well, money doesn't buy happiness because I'm still upset, but you're not really thinking about the position that you came from. So if you don't have money and you're still miserable, you don't have good relationships and you have no money, that's worse than having money, financial security, and still having shitty relationships. So I think it can buy you happiness in certain ways, but it can't handle everything, but it certainly puts you in a better position to have money. I don't know what my answer is. This is an 87 year old man from Austria. If you're straight, imagine your dick as a little person. I think that Greg was onto something because this is another European talking about sex. If you're straight, imagine your dick as a little person and vaginas are different countries. People want to see as many countries as they can before they die, right? If you're gay, I guess assholes are the countries in the analogy. I don't know exactly how that works. I don't know exactly what the fuck you're saying. What the fuck does this even mean? If you're straight, my dick is a little person? Oh, oh, a little, oh, I'm an idiot. I thought he meant like a little person, but he just meant like a person, because that's what I thought. I thought he was like, imagine it's a little person and the vaginas are countries. Like, what is the correlation there? Yeah, the little definitely doesn't need to be there. It's just imagine your dick as a person of a giant as a different country. You want to see as many countries as you can before you die. I mean, that's a pretty blanket statement. I think that I would like to travel. I don't need to see as many countries as possible. It's not that high on my list. Is this person just saying you just go fuck as many people as you possibly can? Yeah, I don't know if this translated well. I do think that this 87 year old man is probably not in a relationship. It's fair to assume that. I don't know if this is great advice. This is now just, I mean, it's honest advice and that was the video, honest advice from old people. But I don't know that I would take this Austrian advice. 88 year old woman from America says, I finally felt free when I realized that just being at peace was better than always trying to be right. This is very true. In my experience, I've dealt with that in my life a bunch too. And I also find that people put such an emphasis on being right and I know how that makes me feel. And people are doing that to me where they need to be right. It's kind of off putting and I don't want to be off putting. I want people to feel like they can communicate with me and that I hear them. So that's not even what I'm trying to do. So I'm realizing people who are so hyper focused on being right, it's annoying and I'm not trying to be that. And being at peace is kind of what we're all after. I mean, earlier we talked about happiness, but really it's this peace and peace is a mixture of happiness and sadness in a way. You know, because you're not always just going to be happy. You don't hit happiness with a certain dollar amount or a certain amount of relationships or whatever and then you're just happy forever. It kind of comes and goes, but being at peace with knowing that that's going to happen I think is where we all want to be. And accepting people's flaws and accepting that maybe you're unable to communicate with somebody is better than consistently filling your time with trying to convince them that you're right. So even if you do feel in your heart of hearts that you are right about something and you're the people that you can fight in, they also believe that you're right, but you can't get this point across to this person. You either have to cut them out of your life or you have to accept the fact that you can't get through. And it's not your job to get through and it's not your job to make people more emotionally mature or emotionally intelligent. So you kind of just got to let that go. You know, and you can, like I said, you can cut them out of your life completely. You can pull back from the relationship and still have an understanding of who they are as a person, but it's not your job to be right. Your job is to take care of yourself. And if the only way that you can feel at peace is you need everyone to like you, you're never going to be at peace. You're never going to be at peace. So that shouldn't be the goal. 99-year-old from Latvia. If you want to say fuck you to your boss so badly, then just fucking do it. It sounds like they don't get a lot of sun over there in Latvia. It will give you the confidence you need to find something new. Um, I think this kind of like is up in the air. I don't know that this would give you the confidence to find something new. I think that find something new and then go back and tell your boss to fuck off. You know what I mean? Make sure that you're good because this is something that's so final that you don't want to put yourself in a compromised position. So if your goal is to be like, this guy is such an asshole or this woman is such a fucking bitch that I cannot wait to be like, fuck you. I don't need this blah, blah, blah, but you have to make sure you don't need it because you got to live and you got to have a career and you got to be doing something. So if you find something and you find a path to, you know, you can do that and you don't need this part of your life anymore. Feel free. Yeah, let it rip because you have to understand you are burning a bridge. You ain't coming back after this. But if you say fuck you and then you get to a point where you're like, now I don't have a job. Now I lost my apartment. Now I'm homeless. 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It's, it's very rare that you're going to have opportunities where, you know, you'll just fall, ask backwards into something extraordinary and I'm like, wow, whatever. You have to go out of your way for yourself because there will be times where these miserable things and these horrible things will happen. And you also have to know how to cope and respond with those things. Find ways to cope and to make life worth living. 73 year old woman from England, stop wasting time explaining yourself to people who already decided not to understand you. Yeah, I mean, once you understand, like I do think that like sometimes people take this a little too far and they feel like I'm just going to be unapologetically myself and I'll just say whatever and, you know, that kind of comes across as rude in a little bit. I think that we're all humans and we have to take that into consideration when communicating and even when you're being yourself and doing things for yourself, you can do it in a way that isn't rude and that is polite. So I do think you should not have to explain yourself to people. If people have questions, I don't think it's like, I'm not explaining myself to you and you're being shut off because that to me is rude. But you don't have to explain yourself to people that are causing negativity in your life. And sometimes people just have a vendetta against you and it's not always your fault. Maybe it's their insecurities and it's being projected onto you for whatever reason. And that's not something you can fix by being better. So if you spend your whole life trying to fix your relationship with someone and it's got nothing to do with you. So nothing you can do will fix that. They have to fix something within inside themselves. If they're projecting their insecurities, the only way to shut that off is you go to the projector and you turn off. Like you can't be a better person for this person if anything that would even feed into it. You start getting even better. There's more reason I hate you. So you have to understand when that is happening, when people are acting out of insecurity or, I don't know, any sort of negative characteristic like that. And just have an understanding of, you're not really mad at me. This is kind of coming from you and you don't need to explain yourself to that person. You just got to create some distance and just manage that. Nine-year-old man from Argentina, the best marriage advice in the world is to marry someone who handles stress well. Trust me. That feels like pretty basic advice. Personally, I feel like, yeah, of course, dude, because I'm assuming marriage will be very stressful and you need to have good communication. And sometimes people are not good at managing stress and it makes them act out emotionally and they make emotional decisions. They say things that they don't mean or they do things that they don't mean to do and they kind of come out of character because the stress is kind of overwhelming, which in one hand, you can be sympathetic to that, but at another hand, it still happened. You still did the thing. You still said the thing and that's wrong. So every time that you get overwhelmed, that doesn't give you a free pass to call me names or to scream at me in some way or put me down. I can understand why it's happening, but that doesn't give you a pass. So someone who handles stress well, I think that just means someone who's able to communicate in times of like, stress, obviously, you know, like you're able to kind of compartmentalize that of like, I am upset about these things and these things, but I still have a job to do in my relationship to communicate and make sure I'm staying as level headed as possible. So I agree. 69-year-old woman from America, if you feel anxiety on Sunday nights, then you should drastically change your life before it's too late. I honestly never understood this. Maybe that's because I haven't had a real job in forever. But the Sunday scariest thing is interesting. I don't know that I necessarily agree or I agree of course, but it's just not always realistic to be like, oh, you're upset with your job. Just quit your job and have another job and, you know, excel at something else or just build something like, that's not always in the cards for people. That's not always realistic. So I don't know that this advice is that good because if anyone could change their life or they had a clear path to do it, I'm sure they would. Maybe they need help or they need a clear path or something like that. I think this is just tough advice. Obviously it's not good if you're feeling anxiety about your life and your job and what not. And of course, the easy advice is like, hey, change it. But that's like telling someone who has depression and like, hey, smile. It's tough. There's more things involved in that. I think it's okay to be upset with your life today and tomorrow, but if you're upset with your path, then I think it's time to think about how can I change that? Because that's more of like in the future. Like, if I see my path right now and I can't see the end and it's almost like, I don't know where my life's going to be in 10 years and I'm not happy with what it looks like in 10 years, then there's small ways to change that. And it's not as drastic as like, I'm going to quit my job and just pursue fucking acting or some shit. That feels like an intense thing that could put you in a situation where it's actually worse. So I think that it's okay to have anxiety about your life right now because we all deal with that no matter what. And that's fine and I wouldn't panic about those things. But if your path is still there, then you're just on one of those journeys. The journey is up and down. It's good and it's bad. It's kind of like that. It is what it is. But if you are really upset with the end path, then, you know, I don't have the answers, but you have to find ways to slowly adjust your life that aren't drastic changes so you can kind of, you know, create a light at the end of the tunnel because that's very important. You need like a guiding light north star kind of thing that would make all this anxiety and shit worth it. I know where you're old man from Hungary. I'm old now and will die soon. That is fine. What I see clearly now is that people think regret has to do with the mistakes you made in your life. But regret is actually a feeling that applies to the chances you did not take. Those will bother you more than the mistakes. Oh, man, I love that. I mean, I'm taking that one. I'm definitely taking that one with me, man. Yeah, regret is a feeling that applies to the chances you did not take. I don't even know if that's true, but it feels nice to hear. Basically, I mean, we're getting into semantics here, but like, not taking an opportunity is a choice. I do think the sentiment remains though that when you're at a crossroads or you're feeling like you need to make a big decision in your life, think about when you're 95. What are you going to, what are you going to say? What are you going to do? What's going to be important to you? If there's a chance to live the life that you want and that's the most important thing in the world to you, it seems like an obvious choice. And it's always going to be scary and there's never going to be the right time and you're never going to be able to plan the whole thing perfectly because it's going to suck along the way and you're going to suck at anything you do for the first time. So you might as well just start doing it and do it, but you got to do it hard also. You can't just do shit stuff. You got to do it hard, all right? I do this sometimes where I think about my mortality a lot when I'm out of crossroads and I'm like, man, I only get one shot. Like, this is it. So what are the reasons why I'm not? Am I scared? Because that can't be it. If I'm scared of something, like I have the fear of that, one, I'm letting it win, that pisses me off. And two, it's just not a good enough excuse to me personally. I'm not saying for you guys, but like for me, fear is not a good enough excuse for me to not try something and to open my life to something because once you start getting over these little fears, your life completely opens up and you're able to like, take in the world even more. And there were so many times in my life that the fear of something made me create an excuse as to why I wasn't doing it so that no one would ask me like, I wouldn't have to tell people that I was scared so I would make up excuses. Now I'm just lying. Like now I'm just lying to people and like, is that who I want to be? Do I want to be someone who constantly lies? every time I don't want to do something? No. So I've gotten to the point of my life where I have just told myself fear is not enough. There has to be more of a reason why I'm not going to take a path or why I'm not going to commit to something or whatever. Fear isn't enough. So there has to be legitimate, like concrete things that are standing in my way that are going to make me be like you can't that's not a good idea. But fear is definitely not one of them and I think that fear drives a lot of people away from paths that will ultimately end up being great for them. So something to think about. I don't know if I said anything there. Here we go. 85 year old woman from Denmark. Give people two chances to change their character or improve themselves after that give up hope on them. Life is too short. Yeah, this is um this is also important. It's hard for the give up hope thing for me, but I do think people it's hard for people to change. I don't like saying people don't change. I do think it's hard for people to change. I have seen people personally that are away and then they do change. The thing that's difficult with this in my experience as a person who I feel went through this is in order to make a change like that you got to look inward and that's very hard to do and you got to you got to take responsibility for the things that you don't have in your life and the bad things about you because there's bad things about everybody and you are able to make change only when you start admitting that you're wrong about shit or that you've done things wrong that you've made mistakes you have to be able to admit that and that's very hard to do for a lot of people and I'm not saying I'm getting it right every single time either. There's a few times in my life where I'm able to look back and be like that was wrong or this is wrong or whatever and I'm constantly trying to do those check-ins because I think that the payoff is so grand to like when you aren't able to acknowledge mistakes and failures and stupid things and whatever and then move on like that's the only way you're able to move on but if you can't hold yourself accountable and you sort of get away with it with yourself you're not going to change because there was no consequence there. I think it's good to feel the weight of your mistakes and your failures because now that you know what that feels like moving forward you're like I don't want to feel like that again so it teaches you to be better essentially you know so for other people you also have to realize that just because you're able to do that doesn't mean that it's that easy for other people and they're dealing with their own lives and their own shit that's going on so maybe they don't even have the bandwidth or the time to start looking inward and dealing with this stuff because they have a lot of different stuff going on and you got to be accepting of that as well and I don't think it makes them a bad person but for you in order to keep your peace you have to say this is just who they are maybe they can change one day but I'm not feeling it right now so I kind of have to create some distance I'm not really a person who like cuts people off unless they're just bad people that I feel like they're bad people but I do create some distance because it's important to me to feel like the people that are around me are uplifting and positive and are adding to my life but if you're not it's kind of like I'm not going to throw you out but I'll keep you here and like I'm still here for you in a way just not you're not standing right next to me type of thing and that's the end of the video I just a lot of rambling I don't know if I answered any of these questions not that they were questions I really no one asked for this advice from me but that's what the old bag said that's what they said and they're always right and I'm sure all these people are like how they make it the 99 cigarettes every morning and you're like all right not gonna do that but thank you for everyone from making it to the end of the video don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you next time