Enlighten This

"The truly unenlightened are always willing to tell you how enlightened they are."
The Chemical Buddha found people were always happy to tell him where he'd fucked up his life. And how much better they were than him. But what he also discovered was these very same people were often just as fucked up as he was. If not more. It was during this time he learned to trust his own counsel more. He also learned to consider the context of the person giving the advice. TCB knew everyone had their own problems to deal with. Said another way, he found no one's life was as perfect as it seemed. However, this didn't stop him from seeking the advice of others. He just didn't feel as compelled to follow it.
How do you let other's opinions of you influence your thought process?
What would happen if you trusted your own instincts and did what you thought was best? How would your life be different?

Experts are Idiots. Idiots are Experts.

“No one knows, but we all get to find out.”
The Chemical Buddha wasn’t a big believer in expert advice or professional opinions. People who thought they knew everything were usually proven to not know anything. Because their brains would twist the information to fit what they saw. The ‘experts’ mind/intellect wasn’t open to seeing something new. He preferred the thinking of novices and idiots. They usually had a way of boiling things down into the simplest components. Some would say they were too simple, but TCB found a lot of value in starting there. For the record, The Chemical Buddha never passed himself off as an expert on anything other than himself. He was the only person who knew the most about TCB. That was the reason he was often pissed off when people tried to act like they were an expert on his life and what he should do with it.
What do you know? What don’t you know? What do you think you know?
How well do you know your own life and what motivates you?

Guesstimate

“We're all just guessing.”
When it comes to life and what’s after life, The Chemical Buddha realized that everyone’s advice was just a guess. No one knows what you should or shouldn’t do. What death will and will not be like. They might have an opinion based on their experience and best thoughts. But does anyone really know what the hell is going on with themselves? Let alone with someone else’s life? The Chemical Buddha found it curious how people were always more willing to tell others how to live, than they were to actually do anything about their own life situation. So when people tried to ‘help’ TCB by offering their advice, he would reply with the above insight. It at least seemed to stop people from pestering him.
How much of your life do you spend guessing?
Do you offer people advice on how to live? Do you follow the advice of others?