I am driving with my friend in a car today and we are discussing this guy who just sold his company for millions. My friend is delighted and a bit envious perhaps as we both know this guy.
But my friend does not realize that this guy is near his sixties now. If anything we are in our thirties. And there is nothing more valuable than the time we have.
I make a joke that Heffner would probably gladly trade his millions, mansion and everything that comes with it for a chance to be in his thirties.
Strange, how most things people pursue come around as not relevant once they get them.
How do we know the important ones right from the beginning?
Enjoy time. Time slips away.
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I think an important point has been missed here. I’m probably ancient compared to you young folks. I’ve never minded birthdays and always treasured each moment and episode of my life. Success often comes and goes but we learn and grow from each experience.
At 56 I wouldn’t dream of trading what I have to go back to my twenties or thirties. The life cycle is what it is and we need to treasure our age. Hopefully we become wiser as time goes on and can use that to joyfully impart some little pieces of our life occurrences (good and bad) that can help others.
Congratulations to your friend who has reached a great monetary success. If he is in the right frame of mind he is not wishing he was 30 again but relishing this moment of time.
That's a great judgment Elizabeth and it takes to have a great life to be able to say something like that.
Thanks Vladimir. You are a star! You get the best blog ever award. I love your rants and WordPress plugins. Your SEO Doctor is awesome - I use it almost everyday. Just think, all that and you're just in your thirties! Be proud - you do make a difference.
If you wanna attain true happiness, never try to get what all others around you try to get. Particularly in this day and age...
Hi Vladimir, you should provide a facebook share icon along with posts so that we can share amazing articles like this with friends directly
Thanks
Noted, thanks for the feedback
Hey Vladimir,
I use your Amazing Grace theme. Nice one ... Im having difficulty with it but nevertheless ... about that guy ... Im 43 and I WISH I could be 30 again! hahaha. I had a blast in my thirties and now Im married with children. Not that it is bad, it was just so much fun ... so I bet you are 100% right!
It also tells and reminds me to enjoy every single day because they go by so fast! I can't actually believe how fast!
A lot of the time, I find that the process of attaining what I strive for is much more rewarding than the actual outcome.
Perhaps that's because at earlier 'ages' we learn that sometimes with "growth," at least physically, comes pain. This is not to say it is necessarily an easy thing to "suffer gladly." (At least as to our first spurt of growing pain.) That said, there seems to reason me, no reason to seek pain in an effort to facilitate growth (my opinion) But then at that point, I'm not specifically speaking of just, though certainly not to exclude it either, "physical pain" anymore.
In terms of metaphysical shortcuts, I say perhaps Caesar got a bit of a bad rap from at least Brute. (Though, it seems to me the write up I read some time ago, arguing the age old story is hogwash, as Caesar probably would have been speaking Greek, and not Latin)
Anyway, more concisely the shortcut is to be mindful of people, friends especially, who would besmirch a fellow friend their financial success. (Unless in competing markets, but even then, "caution" is my watchword.)
Good Luck, and Good Day.
How do we know the important ones right from the beginning?
We don't.
That's why it's important to "be present" in your everyday life. Don't wish moments away, anticipating the next.
Vladimir, I agree with you 100 percent.
Enjoy time.
Thanks Susan, wonderful to have you here.
Vladimir, you sure do have a way of saying the obvious without appearing to be too obvious. Your thought provoking, to-the-point, and why-didn't-I-think-about-that articles that you write always make me say hmm!!!!!!!! Keep it up.
You are right it is obvious, yet we have an innate way of avoiding obvious. Thanks for the comment appreciate it!