THERE IS NO GREATER WEALTH…
Wealth, a word that most of us automatically equate to money, but wealth means so much more than that. It’s a feeling, an attitude really; about the things we have in life upon which we place the greatest value. For me, there is no greater wealth than the life we have left to live. It’s all about time.
Remember being really young and a year seemed
like it took FOREVER to go by??? We were
stuck in school for nine, extremely long months that never seemed to pass fast
enough to get us to that glorious, summer vacation. Christmas Eve in our house was the longest
night of the year, lying in bed trying desperately and impatiently to make it
through the night to the moment we got to open those presents that taunted us
relentlessly from under the tree…aaarrrggghhh!
But then you age, physically and emotionally,
and you begin to realize that time sped up a little and you notice this each
year as you age even more. Before you know
it, it seems to be rushing by at warp speed.
Time now has more value than it did before. We took it for granted in our youth like we
had all the time in the world and could blow through it like a one-percenter
does money. We were invincible.
We lost track of time at some point as we
raised our families and got busy, only ever existing in our “bubble” worlds
with our heads down. We get up in the
morning, get the kids ready for school, get ourselves ready for work, make the
lunches, do our work, come home, make dinner, get everyone off to bed and then
do it all again the next day…merely living for the weekend. OEY are we tired! We
lost track of the fact that precious moments are passing us by.
Then one day we wake up, look in the mirror
and realize that so much time has gone by unnoticed and the amount of time we
have left to live is more precious than we realized. Those of us who have so much of it left are
the truly wealthy. This is when we need
to throw those “bucket lists” out the window and just start living life to the
fullest, doing anything and everything we ever wanted to do (as long as we hurt
no one, including ourselves). No more
excuses…just do it. There is always a
way to make the amazing things we want to happen, happen. Think outside the box.
The truly wealthy know the value of time…they
respect it more than anything else in their lives and they realize that each
and every day is a gift. Please don’t
waste a minute.
No comments:
Post a Comment