Journal Mer_panacea's Journal: My motto 2
Don't look around, but forward.
But now it's time to look around. Life is long.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
Don't look around, but forward.
But now it's time to look around. Life is long.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
"Life is long" (Score:2)
Wait until you get past the half century mark and you'll see that life really isn't. Even if you're young when it seems life is long (at 20 you have perhaps 3 or 4 lifetimes ahead of you), it may not be. Your life can end at any time; I've known far too many people who died way too young.
Sometimes when the world seems bleak (like when I was in the middle of a divorce) it seems life isn't even real, but a punishment for some horrible crime you've committed in the real reality, and death is the end of your im
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Still three years to come till age half century.
20 years old.. that was a turning point in my life. The first twenty years is as good as the years for the rest of my life after 20 years old. I had felt as if I did almost everything in my minor days what I would do after twenty years old.
That does not mean I had sex, drunk, and smoked. Or rather I had never done these as adults usually do. On the contrary I hadn't done almost anything that ordinary youngsters usually do. I didn't watch TV from age 12 till 25