Sangram Pawar

This was going to start with an ‘I’, but I contemplated and decided to begin it in another way. Starting with an ‘I’ would eventually make it advise, but this is not advice. Rather, it is my personal opinion on the concept called advice. Every person is fundamentally different from the other, which makes us unique. However, ironically, everyone these days thinks the same, talks the same, and follows the trend. I don’t think this is wrong or right, but it is unfair to the intellect and natural diversity that we as humans inherit. Conditioning since childhood plays a significant role in our development, and rarely do we think beyond that conditioning, which makes us rigid and blocks the evolution of the self. Due to this herd following, advice rules the world, and that is why being an influencer is the top trend now. More and more advice starts becoming generic, and people start blindly following them. To point out an example, school education is necessary for everyone to progress. This can be a generic advice, but if you really think beyond this conventional societal norm, going to school has nothing to do with education or progress for that matter. Education can be given to all without schools or any other institution. Due to generational conditioning, attending school has become a generic advice, which makes it an objective choice; thus, advice can be given on it. On the contrary, nowadays, you cannot give generic advice on when to retire. People have started to choose their retirement age depending on various things, which makes it a very subjective choice. Personally, I feel everything should be subjective; otherwise, what is the point of this diversity if everyone is following the generic advice that fits into our minds, and rarely we try to look beyond that. If anyone asks me for something specific, I give my personal opinion with a disclaimer that this is what I think, and it is not my advice. Relationship advice, though it seems very generic in nature, cannot be applicable to each and every couple because that advice will have different effects on each individual depending on the dynamics of the relationship and the nature of the people involved in that relationship because they’ve evolved differently with different conditioning. Therefore, relationship advice never actually works on a deeper level. Again, this is my opinion. I won’t say don’t give advice or give advice. Personally, I’ve stopped giving them. In my opinion, if you work primarily on advice following and advice giving, you’ll experience limited growth, which will be on a very superficial level.