The #1 Most Common Mistake Young People Make

My mom made the best PB&J’s.

I swear — the simple combination of peanut butter, grape jelly and white bread never tasted as good as it did when my mom made it. I ate them every single day for lunch from my first day at kindergarten up until my last day in high school.

I still don’t think I’m doing them justice here.

If chefs Gordon Ramsey and Bobby Flay combined all of their culinary knowledge, gathered the world’s finest peanuts, collected top-quality grapes intended for the finest pinot noir and took the softest, most-exquisite wheat for white bread to make me a PB&J sandwich, it wouldn’t even come close to the one my mom made.

I would do anything to go back to 3rd grade for just one day so I could grab my brown paper lunch bag, reach to the bottom, pull out the Ziploc bag with the half-squished sandwich made entirely out of love and savor every single bite.

I tell you this for two reasons:

1. My mom is better than your mom.

2. Young people people take things for granted.

I can’t tell you how many times I said,“When I’m older I’m going to do this and that and all these things” and let the day go by without…