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My Best Ever Life Advice Which Is Simple And Also Not Going To Make You Feel Great

Alden Tan
2 min readAug 8, 2018

Answered this on Quora yesterday.

The question is generic: What is the best life advice you would give?

And here’s my answer, something which I sincerely hope stands out from all the other answers out there that try too hard to make a difference in one package:

When my dad died and after the cremation was done, I had a ton of shit going on in my head:

“Am I going to be okay?”

“How do I move on?”

“How does my mom move on? She has to sleep alone now after being with someone for so long.”

“How will be my brother be like?”

“What’s it going to be like in the house now?”

“Hell, am I going to get a random disease one day and just die off suddenly too?”

It was scary. It was overwhelming. It was stressful and the future certainly looked bleak.

But eventually, I moved on anyway. My mom, brother and I, we all have since.

How did we do it?

I believe we did it the one way which when put into words, will never help make anyone feel better after reading this.

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