A old man's advice

good morning I made a video not too long ago called an old man's advice Wow looking at me I looks like I need to trim my beard a little bit but I received several requests to continue on with that and so I've decided to share a little bit about myself and my life and my hardships and my successes with you you know this this world today is tough it's tough for young people it's tough for people that for years have had jobs and security and made good money had been able to take care of their families and some time ago as you know jobs were shipped overseas to improve the bottom line of big companies and I thought I'd tell you a little bit about myself why I quit school when I was in a 10th grade my mother and father left me standing on a street corner and so it was up to me to make it and I had a job working at a Shell filling station and I went to the owner and I told him my situation and I was making $1 an hour and I asked him if I could work more hours and so I began working 90 hours a week and during that time as I've said before my home was the back of an old car and I worked my 90 hours a week then I took my in a polling station restroom and I wish my clothes my private clothes in a sink and once in a while when I was really hungry I would go to the grocery store and snitch an apple or an orange now this was in the 50s things were a lot different than they are now and I'm convinced that the owner of the grocery store knew what I was doing because it was about a half a block away from where I worked and he knew me now I've said before the good things or bad things last forever and that's true and I began to learn different things I knew in my soul that if I had nothing to offer I was as far as I was going to go now unemployment at that time was very high on the other hand in the 50s you could go into a corporation and ask for a job and get it and after I had worked 90 hours a week for a long time I went into the service I was 17 in the service I taught myself to read and write the first book I picked up was a book written by Louis L'Amour and had a hundred and ninety-six pages in it I'll never forget it it was a cowboy story a West and there were ward jenn-air that I didn't know I didn't understand I had no idea what they were so I got a dictionary from the service library and as I would read if there was a word that I didn't understand I would look it up and I will tell you now it took me almost three weeks to read a hundred and ninety-six pages but I read and I continued to read and in several months I was reading two and three books at a time and I knew where I was and every single one of them so that's what you can do a person's mind is incredible your mind is incredible as a young person regardless of what's happening in the world today you have opportunity and don't you believe for one single minute what they say in the media because if you aren't getting ahead and you need to get ahead position yourself to learn go to the librarian to learn you are the backbone of this world young people without you this world is nothing nothing you are the backbone of this world you are the future leaders of this world you are the ones that see the greed of the people that are running it now you're the ones that see the waste of the people that are running it now we need you we need your minds we need your hearts we need your lives we need your loves we need you to care and and I know that you do care oh I see young people stepping on a flagon and throwing rocks rioting that's frustration frustration it's frustration with the establishment and I understand it but that's not you don't let that be you rise above it you're better than that rise above it anyway I got kind of track there but anyway as I went on and I got out of the service I had begun to write and educate myself I got a little bit of college and I've continued on through my life with that and you can do the same thing you don't have to have a Doctorate or a PhD PhD or a master's degree what you have to have is determination you have to have an inner will to get things done you have to have a desire and I know the desire is there because as I said before without your brains without your ambition without your Drive this world will be nothing nothing because old people like me die off I have been successful not tremendously successful but I have a decent retirement I live with my lovely wife and in Arizona I've had financial problems everyone has those but you can't stop you can't quit you can't say I'm a failure you're not a failure you're not you're a wonderful strong intelligent youngster take advantage of that trust in God trust in yourself and step forward put one foot in front of another let me give you an example I've had a couple of businesses they weren't tremendously successful but they were successful I've written books I have presently probably 13 or 14 books in publication my latest is copper penny it's in paperback on Amazon look it up so you can do it I did it you can do it I'm 76 and to them to my last breath I won't encourage young people because I love them I will encourage young people because I know they're the future you are the ones that must save the oceans you are the ones that must save the air because those that are in power the bottom line unfortunately for many many of those in power all over the world its wealth and power over others so I'm going to close this now but I just wanted you to know that people like me old soldiers old people we understand and as old as I am I would pick up my cane and defend you to my last breath because I love you so I'm gonna stop now but just remember never quit never quit

Channel: Bernard Albertson

Views: 9,078,668

Rating: 4.9819741 out of 5

Keywords: advice, how to live a great life, how to live a healthy life, god is great, liing a great life, jesus, advice for youth

Id: JhckVlgYZJE

Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/thecoolestjedi]

He passed away in 2018 unfortunately

[u/[deleted]]

Good video. This guy has seen some shit. I'm going through probably the roughest time in my life so far and although it's not perfectly related to what I'm going through it made me feel better knowing that he could go through that sort of hardship.

[u/FumbleHuck]

What a wonderful human. It’s not failure if it’s not done. And it’s only done if you quit. Never quit.

http://open.spotify.com/track/27rJivHbK7CeeaQ2RLDFKa?si=jC_if7GWQ-a6aS3-4ULJBQ

[u/Volt_Switcher]

Brown bricks in minecrap

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you for this.

[u/Weasel_Logic]

Got recommended this earlier today, nice to see it here as well.

[u/Gandalfthecool]

Aye, had the pleasure of sitting next to a WW2 vet who landed in Normandy the day after D-Day and didn’t quit until Berlin. Didn’t say a word about it other than a veterans hat (and until I politely asked him about his service). That man and his generation saved the world.

[u/3hungergames]

''...Good things nor bad things last forever...''

[u/JayTee1597]

Thank you for sharing. Powerful stuff