Unasked advice??

started by Lakshmi M Bhat 4 mnths ago
Why are people so fond of giving unasked, unwanted advice?
All of us think that we are experts in some matter or the other,  when that subject comes up, we jump to give our opinion, unasked ofcourse!!
Children who have just passed their 12th std and their parents hve to often face this situation. Everyone's advice adds to the confusion of the child, unless she/he has made a firm decision.
Gardening-  people love to tell others what plants they should have planted and where and so on...
Why do we do it? 

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  Uppili posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago
Since you asked...

Indians like to think they are helping others without even being asked, and you are not going to change.  So it is better to think of such advice as "information" or at best "suggestions."  Also, important to teach the child(ren) how to handle such "advice"  One way is to tell the child to seek info from different people/sources and learning to list the pros and cons and make its own decision. If already tentatively decided, the "advice" may be used to verify, clarify, reinforce those tentative decisions.

  Vaidyanathan Pushpagiri posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago

LMB:

 Point noted. What is the burthen of your post?  Why are you here?  To feed Chicken soup to our souls?  Or you have an Holier than thou Attitude?  

Has it ever occured to you that we exchange our view points and in the process get educated?  NO ?  Then something must be seriously wrong with your upbringing.  Were you an only child to your parents and  for every minor misdemeanour your parents asked you to stand in the corner of their bedroom, facing the wall, and repeat the Hanuman Chalisa  - how many times 9 or 11? 

See, I am NOT giving my opinion uasked.  Now you will be forced to give vent to your anger, at my expense. 

And that in a nutshell is Sulekha CH for you.
 

Rajaputhran.

  Lakshmi M Bhat posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago
Why should I get angry with what every X Y and Z  has written,  it would be very stupid of me wouldn't it ?
Emotions are too precious to waste them .
  BHARATBHAU posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago
As per hindu anscent phyosophy, every individual personality is infuenced  by its plenatory positions in Birth chart-horoscope. Emotions are part of it. His interaction are part of destinity in closed related individuals, his adaptibity & grouth of maturity.Everyone has own understanding capability with limited scale of variations in occasion, precedence, place, drivingforce motivation & respondant. Anger can be constructive if it yield goodness if perceived with positivity. Though it is   undesirable  but  not so deplorable in need of situation done in with emtions i.e. 'Bhava'. Kshatriya karma inspires invidual  to do so without hasitating for it   and not to repent further with any guilt feeling.
Bharat Sadani



  RS-K posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago
Yep. We advise. Even when the advise is to not to advise others.   Something in us that wants to help. Or something in us that wants to correct. Or something in us that wants to show our knowledge. Or maybe just something in us that wants some recognition or gratitude. 

*shrug*
  smitasamm posted Re:Unasked advice?? on 4 mnths ago
Oh I think all this help, information and suggestions is great, I gather it all in like a giant haystack, sort the chaff from the wheat, take what I want, discard the rest, and usually come up with a solution.  Its great, I am very appreciative of what everyone gives, for whatever reason, that RS-K has written above :).



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