andrewducker | Getting my retaliation in first

I am, I believe, not unusual in being great at giving advice and godawful at taking it.

In fact I don't believe I'm unusual in being able to offer people solutions to problems that I have myself, and simultaneously doing something completely different, because my case is special and unique and I don't need to do the sensible thing.

So if you catch me offering advice either in person or on LJ and you realise that it's advice that I could do with myself, don't think I'm being hypocritical. Think of them as realisations I've had that might help me in the future, or ideals that I aspire to but am not quite achieving yet. Some day I may well achieve the enlightened state in which I can simultaneously grasp the right thing to do and carry it out. For now I'll have to settle for mostly managing option A and occasionally verging on option B.

This post brought to you by all sorts of things I've wanted to say recently, but haven't, because I was worried I'd look like a complete idiot