Advice from an Eighty- Three -Year- Old

One hot Californian morning I came to visit an old woman who had just returned home after an emergency followed by a three-month stay in a nursing home.  When asked for advice on how to live decently, she said:

• Let go everything
• Love all, and
• Never speak ill of anyone.

Regarding parenting, her advice was:

Do your best as parents, but when your children are grown-ups and have their own lives, respect them as independent entities.  Never control them; they have their own lives.

Regarding marriage life, she said:

• Tolerance and 
• Compromise