Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen. Unfortunately, Vonnegut had neither written nor delivered the speech. Five days later, the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, delivered his own commencement speech at MIT, where Vonnegut has never been the commencement speaker.