Advice for the Young

Beware of internalizing your parents' and relatives' attitudes, their harsh, unsympathetic, 'practical' attitudes and suggestions especially as regards what is tender, fledgling, open, searching, trusting, idealistic and unworldly in yourself.  Beware of dismissing or discounting your young self, the young self that was and the one that still is.  One must treat oneself critically but with sympathy.