I tell people to keep an eye on their diet. Once you hit your early 20s that whole teen "I can eat a whole pizza and be fine" is gone. It is incredibly easy to go over your calorie needs in a week and after a year you've gained 2-3 lbs or more. Before you know it by 30 or 40 you are 50+ lbs over and obese and now you are struggling to lose it. It creeps up on you.

Forgive yourself and others but learn from those experiences. As a saying goes "Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

As my father who traveled constantly for work said all big cities and airports start to look alike.

Grow some herbs and such. It is fun going through a recipe and thinking "Oh, I can run outside for this ingredient." I like to tell my wife "In a way we are eating our lawn." lol

Get away from tech on a regular basis. Allow yourself to be in your own thoughts occasionally. I think constantly being tied to phones and the internet is killing creativity because we never have those day dreaming moments that lead to inspiration.

Don't spend huge chunks of your life on video games. They are a fun distraction but at the end of the day is it just bits on some server that could be shut down at any moment. Get off of the dopamine treadmill.

If you need to learn one rule it is "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you"

My wife got it on top of her foot from wearing sandals for decades

Woman in tropical countries cover themselves in very light long sleaved tops. I bought one in Vietnam for my wife.

Wear a wide brimmed hat too. You'll look jaunty while protecting your head.

Don't fry yourself or use tanning beds. Getting your skin scraped down to a weeping ulcer is not fun and even that is much better than what you could get.

So many people I know who after college ended up living on crap. At best they only knew how to boil pasta. I got a cookbook on my favorite cuisine at the time and started trying all sorts of recipes when I first lived on my own. I tell my wife "If you can follow instructions you can cook" and she said "I hate following instructions." lol

Please wear them at shows. Coming home with your ears feeling like you are underwater and ringing is a sign you've damaged them. I don't know why they insist on making shows so damn loud.

Do one adventure trip where you are out of your comfort envelope, pushing yourself physically, etc. Don't make it a booze/party trip.

Every dollar you sock away in your 20s is worth so much more than waiting until you are in your 50s

Or illegal immigrants are more likely out of their population (about 10 million) to commit a violent crime.

I thought my tuna salad had a kick to it

During ww2 the alternative was hunger

We're always trying to optimize and reduce loss/waste. Being able to have food sit on shelves for months without oxidizing or rotting has been a huge improvement in terms of food loss but it requires these biounavailable materials. If we use compostable materials for packaging then the clock starts ticking on them and storage facilities need to maintain stricter standards (i.e. keep humidity down).

The medical aspect is a big issue. You see what is consumed in an ER and surgery and then multiply that by a million/day and you wonder how much of this trash is being produced. Lawsuits over every little medical issue don't help reduce this. Fishing industry waste is another big issue for the oceans.

Part of me thinks we'd be better off just burning most of it at this point. Maybe work on bacteria that can break down the plastics in specific environments like seawater.

FB is the worst for this when they stick a link to another person in your comment. Stop trying to force me to link people all the time.

People who chew with their mouth open are maddening lol