Yes, obliquely…
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That’s the essence of a life imbued with experience which everybody can pass on to the next generation. Goes without saying that such an abstract piece of advice needs to be illustrated with corresponding examples to make it more meaningful to a 16 y.o. It helps to make them aware that being overambitious and aiming at perfection may be counterproductive.
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I’m not disagreeing Dachs 
We were largely different as individuals at the age of sixteen. Much depended on circumstances, parenting etc, more questions than answers perhaps…
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But its less advice and a lot more specific stipulation. Advice is more general - do these things and it will benefit you in the future, it gives you the chance to change how you had lived your life. Stipulation is very specific - think exactly these thoughts and make sure nothing changes. As such it is a waste. Your younger self will grow into your current self (especially as you’ve not actually given your younger self any life changing advice). And your current self hates the EU and that won’t change. So providing your younger self with this limiting stipulation serves no prupose, is of no benefit and only acts to limit thought.
Aim for Self Sufficiency.
Priortise Home “Owned” Property.
Clearing any Mortgages at the earliest.
An ensured Stable Insurace that 65% of UK Have.
Suprisingly Compared with Germany. At 47% and France at 53%.
Norway 73%
Comfortable with a Self Controled Equalied Fluxation.
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Be happy.
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You can only be who you are, and somebody is ALWAYS going to want something different from you. Let them take care of themselves…you just do your thing. Eventually you’ll get to this wisdom anyway, might as well be sooner!
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I love this! Great answer!
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But as the thread title suggests, it’s not advice for anyone…It was specifically aimed at me as a younger man. Other advice is available.
And as it turns out, I was quite correct in taking said advice so I did vote to come out of the EU.
Having grown up seeing the Common Market morph into the all consuming monster that it has now turned into, my advice would appear to be quite correct.
Also correct was the fact that my works pension has been raided by the government and in retrospect, wasn’t worth the many years of cutting costs and going without when I could have been out enjoying myself.
And keeping yourself out of harms way when covid struck would seem to be the best way to combat a virus that spreads from person to person, instead of allowing the establishment (because lots of doctors were sceptical about the vaccines efficacy) to inject unknown chemicals into ones bloodstream and use the public as lab rats.
I’m curious about this as most work place pensions have a double benefit - the employer also contributes so your pension pot grows more quickly and income tax is calculated after removing your own pension contributions. At least that was the structure for my work pensions. So even though I missed out on final salary pension schemes, my various work pensions were relatively efficient.
What happened with yours that meant the final value was so poor?
(Pension advice is a very good thing to give to one’s younger self as at 16 years old it is hard to understand how vital a pension will be in later years.)
Is that not a very circular thought process?
Anyway, not the thread to rake over Brexit coals. Over the next couple of years I suspect that we will get enough of that.
Yup, let’s just ignore the dramatically beneficial impact that vaccines had during Covid. Worse, let’s assume your younger self doesn’t confuse your advice on modern vaccines with the safety of long established vaccines. What is the status of the current measles problem in the US?
Nothing to do with lockdown then Lincs?
Stick with sixteen year old girls!
One day you’ll join a forum…
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Let’s swing this chat back to advice to your 16 year old self. My advice would be to trust the science and not the unqualified quacks. Especially do not trust the snake oil sales people with bad scare tactics and well being supplements to sell.
But in reply to your question - no. As you will recall the lock down reduced the spread of the virus by simply reducing the contact between people. As soon as contact began again the virus re-appeared in strength. Hence the second lock down. Only after the vaccine was available did this cycle stop.
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So how come other previous viruses were defeated without vaccines?
Which ones?
Ebola is far from defeated.
SARS / MERS - caused about 700 deaths each before vaccines stopped each varient.
Measles, rubella, mumps, polio - all defeated by vaccine (until idiots stopped taking them)
With no vaccine -
Spanish flu killed about 20 million, ran over 3 years in 3 major waves before sufficient immunity was built up to prevent another wave. Do you think this is a successful, repeatable appeoach? (Remember in today’s much more connected, travelling world the numbers would be much higher.)
It’s a good job that I had all my vaccinations then isn’t it.
At least they tested them properly, unlike the ones they use now.
700 deaths each…That’s small potatoes compared to covid which I believe is/was a man made strain made in a lab somewhere.
Someone has made a great deal of money from peoples suffering, and still are.
One of the reasons why I don’t like globalism and the major transmission of people around the world.
Perhaps you should change your name here to OldGreyCanute. Place your favourite chair outside Heathrow and see if that works. The world is now, has been for some time, about international & cross border stuff. Trade, movement of people, holidays, knowledge. It makes nations richer, it makes people more informed, it reduces conflict. You can, if you want, stay home and knit your own slippers but that will change nothing.
I think we are in danger of chatting at cross purposes. You seem to be confirming that you support all vaccines except the recent Covid ones. I’m worrying that advice to a youngster about being cautious before deciding to receive a vaccine can lead to people opting out (or opting their children out) of taking all vaccines.
Is that a fair summary?