No one wants to be sorry. I bet everyone rather be safe.
Quite simple actually, and not that difficult.
This saying is a guideline to make good, informed, well thought-through choices in life.
Wisdom. That is applicable for all lives. For everyone. At all times. Regardless of whom or wherever you are.
It has no age-restriction, allthough I bet it may be an easier pill to swallow at ages over 23-25 when the human brain biologically is fully grown and has unlocked abstraction thinking which is valuable to make smart and complex decisions and has helped us humans survived for a long time.
It saves you from unnecessary grief.
It summarizes hard earned lessons learned from thousands of years of human evolution. Because it’s as true now as it ever were.
It doesn’t matter what culture one ”belongs to” or has been upwrought in, it doesn’t matter how your life looks, how you live.
It’s a universal truth that most often can relate to and associate with.
It’s powerful in its simplicity and easy to remember.