The hazard of giving advice

Fragments from imaginary dialogues

“No, thank you. I don’t smoke.”

“Come on, live your life.”

“What you call ‘living your life’ is a model. I call it a life-model – a blueprint of what the good life looks like.

There’s a myriad life-models to choose from. Some are very low value, others very high value, and everything in between. [spectrum model]

My model involves a deep respect for my beautiful BodyMind, which I consider sacred.

Why would I settle for what I perceive as a very low value model?

To me your advice sounds like telling a bird it should walk more.”