The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me
And just now realising I've never truly lived by it
I had an epiphany the other day—and it broke me. I don’t regret much. I’ve always trusted that life leads you where you're meant to be. But there’s one thing I wish I’d realised sooner.
It was something my dad said to me for years. A simple phrase I clung to like a lifeline. I believed I was living by it. I repeated it. I built my identity around it. And then I woke up the other day, at 45, with the devastating realisation that I hadn’t lived by it at all.
The advice? You’ve probably heard these words before. But I doubt they’ll hit you the way they hit me…