How few people's opinions actually matter. When we are younger we worry so much about people opinions. We worry about what everyone thinks. As we get older we realize how little those people actually matter.
I had someone ask me something today that got me to thinking ... What do you realize more now that you are older, that you didn't when you were younger? Any comments?
That a "credit score" defines who you are in society so keep a good score.
How rich and personally rewarding the study of reality is.
I though I knew, but boy I had no idea.
Time. When younger I thought I had all kinds of time, as I've aged time has become more precious to me. Also time seemed to go slower when I was younger, now I blink and a year went by.
I realize that patience will usually pay off in the long run.
Touching on some of the other excellent responses, I have realized more how important it is to get on with the business of living.
-Live in the moment; don't dwell in the past, nor obsess over things you can't change.
-To be ABOUT something, to be of use or aid to your fellow man.
-To give cause to be well spoken of and fondly remembered.
1. Most people in high responsibility jobs, with titles etc, have no clue as to what they are doing.
2. At a person's funeral, people rarely care about how a persons looked or what job they did, but who that person was and how much their personality had an effect on them.
3. Vanity and fear just leads to self absorption and a lack of freedom, if you want to be free you need to be so absorbed in something where you are really enjoying it, or having so much fun that you don't care about anything else.
4. Most things in life can be dealt with using a good dose of laughter.
5. If you take life too seriously it really is going to be a long hard slog.
6. Best advice you can receive is off someone who identifies how bloody hard it is sometimes, and how fallible they are, it is that which bonds people.
7. Everyone needs a hug sometimes, or a listening ear without interruption or comment, especially off of someone who knows where they are at, because they've been there themselves. Listening is an underestimated gift, and the world will never be full of "too much" empathy.
Patience and time is on your side
That the longer I live, the more impossible it is to see a microraptor
How much life there really is out here.
And then I found this .. Pretty much sums it up for me ..
"The more you know, the more you know that you don't know."
what life, love, family, friends, and bills are
