People love giving others advice. For some reason, though each of us has our own lives to live and should be evaluating our own problems, we all find it easier to pick apart other people's lives, while pointing out to them where they've gone wrong. Even if the advice is well-meaning, people forget that they haven't lived the life of the one they propose to counsel. There is no way that they can understand all the aspects of the decisions they have had to make.

I find this to be true even for ...