It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.