What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

I’ve received so many different pieces of advice in my life that I don’t remember most of them, or at least the exact phrasing, but I still recall much of how they made me feel or think.

As for what’s the BEST one, I couldn’t really say. Advice is often situational, and less “one-size-fits-all”.

I think the one that comes to mind right now, not word for word but as close as I can recall, is that “[life/the world] keeps moving with or without you” because you can infer different things. Like the fact that other people have lives, too. The world keeps moving even if you’re not doing anything, so don’t just sit around waiting, because nobody else is going to wait for you forever. Sit around doing nothing and you should expect nothing in return.

So many different ways to phrase it, and all of them more or less mean the same thing.