Social Media Advice - 08.28.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is from Elena on Steve Harvey FM. Elena says,
I'm twenty six and I feel like my life never
really got off the ground. After high school, I drifted
without many close friends and never dated. I pushed through
college and earned a degree, but now I'm back living
with my parents because I can't seem to land anything

(00:21):
beyond part time work. My days are just the gem
Aaron's and home again. I know I'm healthy and capable,
but knights hit me hard, and I can't shake the
feeling that I'm wasting my twenties while everyone else is
moving ahead. Will I be able? Will I ever be
able to catch up with my peers? Or am I
already too far behind?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Wow? Well, first of all, you've got to stop the
comparison things. Yes, thank you. Like I told you, comparison
is the greatest thief of joy. You don't even you're
not even giving your self credit for graduating, forgetting a degree,
of being healthy, going to the gym. You're not giving

(01:04):
yourself credit for them you back home with your parents.
You don't even see that blessing. It's some people ain't
got nowhere to go. You back home with your parents,
You got a chance to save money, but you can't
find nothing worthy. Have you ever thought this is the
path that you are on, unlike your friends? And please
stop thinking that your friends, all their lives is just

(01:25):
a butter cups and daisies. Because I trust me, it
ain't trust me, it ain't. And twenties is hard on everybody,
and especially figure. The majority of people I know blow
their twenties and end up spending their thirties fixing what

(01:47):
they did in their twenties. That part, I mean, your
thirties is the repair years. Got all that excess party in,
stayed in college too long. Oh, these student loans back
thirties is repair?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And you know what?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
So this is what I would do. Stop focusing on
your friends, Focus on yourself. What is your gifts? What
is your talents? What are you passionate about? And start
looking in that and and and and ask God what
your gift is. It's very simple. And once you discover that,
become passionate about your gift and get on with your
life and realize this you're only twenty six. At twenty six,

(02:29):
I was so fall I wasn't a stick, I wasn't
an eight ball, I wasn't a keyball. I was chalk.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh, I was chalk. But keep going, Steve, You'll make
it one day. You'll make it one.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, listen to me, you're only twenty six. Stop berating yourself.
A whole lot of people mess they twenties up. I
know I did. That's through mine out the window. Now.
I got already at twenty four, had twins at twenty five.
I'll go way too fast. I'm just now recovering from that.

(03:17):
Who are grown with children of their own. I'm still
climbing out that hole.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Look you're grandfather down. Quit it. See, keep going, You'll
make it one day. Keep going. Don't get it.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's no see that's what that's what the mother. Don't
waller in the squalor. Get off and quit creating squalor
that ain't there.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're twenty six.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
You're actually okay. If you quit comparing yourself to your
friends who ain't doing all that great, if you really
knew the behind the scenes story, stop following them on Instagram.
Stop looking at their little life because you don't know
how it's going. Hey man, I had this young dude.
I was talking to it one time. He's a very
successful young kid, and they having some out of troubles,

(04:00):
and he was talking with some people I knew. He
said the funniest thing. Man. I had to laugh, But
then I had to give him some some some old
school wisdom with him. He said, because he was having
some real marital issues. He was just sitting there with
his head down and he said, man, you can't even
cheat in peace.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
What I laughed?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Man, I laughed so hard I had to catch myself.
And then I said, come in, Come in, little man,
let me frak. That's an oxy moron.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
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