Friday, July 1, 2011
Chapter 233:
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When do you want to retire?
Some people says 45 years old, and they work day and night for 20 odd years, telling themselves, a few more years, a few more years. They aimed to have a better life at the age of 45 years old.
But I ask, why?
By then, your kids have already grown up and relationships can't be build over night.
You lost time - their time, to love them and grow up with them. You miss their firsts, and their proudest achievements because you felt that money was the best present you could have given.
What if by the time you are 45, your kids have already started having their own life that you're no longer welcome into?
And really, the biggest question, what if you die at the age of 45 years old?
If your life is to enjoy after the age of 45, does the fact that you dies at 45 render you life worthless? Does it makes it meaningless?
Then what exactly is life to you? To die?
And if this goal is shared by your spouse to both enjoy life and each other's company at the age of 45, what is left for him/her?
Does she go fulfilling each shared goal all on her own, stabbing her own heart each time as she goes about it?
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Don't make promises that you can't 100% guarantee. You may want to keep it, but can you?
Don't make such long term plans that you can't fulfill.
Because you know what? This is life, something that can just be taken with a snap of a finger, be it a car crash or an operation failure. It'll be gone, just like that.
Please, live every moment knowing that you have made the best/near best of your time.
Indeed, we do long term events in our life. We make plans/save for the future. But do make each decision knowing that if circumstances were to change drastically and you were to die the next moment, rationally you would have done the same.
Take the above stated 45 year old retirement example. Why not choose to retire at 55 year old, but spend more time with your family and husband/wife. Wouldn't that be better?
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Live everyday happily, don't postpone it. Because really, I find it the best thing life can ever give.
Live, Love, and Laugh.
Don't ever do something you don't enjoy just so you can enjoy later.
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