More unsolicited advice from me

Go into a gourmet market and buy something you’ve never tried before.

When you see teenagers laughing at a crazy person on the train, remind them that the person was once a baby, and to have sympathy.

Don’t rack up points against a friend who you feel has let you down. That's not being a good friend.

Read “War and Peace” from cover to cover, even if you don’t want to and even if you don’t like it. That way you can say to yourself, "I’ve read ‘War and Peace.’”

Don’t feel silly for feeling pleasure every time your eyes rest on your Persian rug mouse pad.