The kind people at my coffee shop got me a coffee yesterday for my birthday. All of them in their twenties… they asked: “So, what is your advice to us now that you are 49?” I did not expect the question and was not ready for it. I have whole movies going on in my head every day when it comes to all advice I wish I can give to my kids, but I know better and stay quite. And here they are, four very cool young people ready for my answers and I had nothing constructive to say, but: I don’t ever want to be 20 again. How positive of me… What I wish I had said was: enjoy every day, what people think of you doesn’t matter, do what you love, have fun, be honest, keep good friends around you, don’t worry about shit, everything passes… so many things, but my big mouth had nothing. Or what I could have told them is the phrase that my dad-in-law uses all the time “Nothing is as it seems except thinking makes it so.”