What makes us worthy of giving advice ?

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My milkman’s 17 year old daughter came to ask for my advice,

She asked me what should I pursue next in my life

I could not answer her question but began to introspect,

Have I achieved enough so far to have gained this respect

I often find myself scrambling to know where I should go

How can I then tell the path to take, when my own I don’t know

I wonder what makes us worthy of giving such life advice

The external facade is what they see, cant they hear my screaming inner voice?

How am I any better than that 17 year old to know which path to take?

Should I tell her the truth or protect this false reputation at stake

Have I established any standards of exemplifying “the success?”

Should I tell her how hollow I am within, that it’s nothing but a mess

Should I tell her to take one step at a time and let things fall in place

That she must know what she wants to be and then walk towards at a steady pace

I must acknowledge that I am outwardly at a place many aspire and struggle to be

I earn a paycheck at the end of the month and have gifted independence to me

I must not take the present for granted, but I cannot feign success as well

I might be a few steps ahead from where I began, but there is a long way to go I can tell

I stood there thinking what meaningful advice I could impart

All I could tell her was Find your dream and then chase it with all your heart!!

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As we Part...!

This is all the courage I could gather to put down the avalanche of memories and thoughts rushing to my mind at the rate of 1Gigabytes per second..This is to the place which made or unmade me...K Forever! Living in the fear of having to go separate ways brings pain All my efforts to hold back and let go have gone in vain Every passing moment brings conflict and choices One last time is all I can hear among all the voices! Lost in the sea of where to be and what to be Everything shall pass and yet I want to hold on to thee! I shall never return and this is where we part But to thee I promise, we carry a piece of each other’s heart!

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