why does it take so long?

There are different things I was told as a teenager, little bits of advice about the way life works, the way people work, and how to make life a little easier. These are things which were told to peers, and I know are told to young people still. For some reason, it seems like no one gets them. I know so many of those bits were lost on me; I had to learn them through experience. I hope there are some teens who are able to learn through advice and not through experience.