Lesson from a senior

Another colleague is resigning soon. Thank God for the chance to have lunch together. And through our short lunch, there’s something that i learn. Season of life.

I had never seen it this way before. That life is series of seasons. Time for singlehood, time of being in married, time of being a parent, and time of looking after the aging parents.

When we’re young, we have a lot of energies, so we don’t mind trying out things and we have the time and energy to spend exploring things. In growing years, we do too have much energy and time, yet comparatively less now. So we still do explore things. Then comes the 50th years of life that we tend to be more focus, and stop running around.

Two things i learnt from this friend:

  1. It’s better to determine early the focus / goal of one’s life. Don’t waste time running around. A focus life is better than an aimless life.
  2. It may take awhile to wonder around. But the time is short. So always remember that. Whatever times you have at hand, use it to the max. We can’t gain back what’s past.

Lastly, what i thought might be one more point in relationship with time and life. Often we’re too shortsighted. We only make plan for the next 5 to 10 years. As result, we get impatient. While if we take perspective of 20, or even 30 years….we would probably make different decision. I don’t know yet, what’ the best way yet. Just an observation.

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