Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Advice to my younger self:

1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hurt other people
3 Take more chances
4 If you fail, keep trying

Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Unloving
Unambitious
Unmotivated

or make you feel...
Uncomfortable

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Character development is conflict.

When people realized I’m strong, some of them appeared to be morons who automatically assumed it meant they might feel free to “beat” me as hard as they liked to, supposing it had to be fine with me.