I think I've reached that point in life. You know, where you start to realize the things that are important. I've got a long ways to go and hopefully I will be given that time. Time is the greatest gift of all, after all. With the loss of my sister I was once again reminded of that. Then, just the other day a good friend of mine lost her daughter, another life cut short in time. My grandson will be 18 in ten days, time moving on. Well, time and tide wait for no man, an old adage I heard my grandmother use many times. Grandma was an advocate for " get'er done " long before Larry the cable guy, long before cable in fact! But they were concerned mostly with accomplishing a goal of some type. With life, do we really want to get'er done? I'm not looking forward to it being over myself, but realize it will be, one day. So, for that reason, I have begun to concentrate more on the important stuff in life.
What is the important stuff? Is it money or material things? It is, for the short term. That's why we buy so much insurance. Insurance is a stop gap measure to ease our burden, or the burden of those left behind. Living goes on, even when our life ends. The important things benefit others more than ourselves. That is the lesson to be learned in all of this. It is also why I say, I have just begun. It isn't an easy transition. I enjoy the creature comforts as much as anyone else, the short term gain. It is harder to concentrate on the long term, especially a term longer than myself. The reason for it is a simple one, there is little short term gain for me. In fact, there are times when working toward the long term you are criticized for your failure to satisfy in the moment.
" It's for your own good. " How many times did you hear that as a child? Then we spend a great deal of our time and effort getting stuff for ourselves. We are concerned with our own good. Or so it would seem. Some of us never understand any of that. Some get fixated on the money and material things, equating them to success. Popularity is of paramount importance to others. Still others get fixated on doing good for the benefit of others, whether the others like it or not. It's for their own good after all. I'm justified in doing so aren't I? I'm doing it for me, but it's really for you. It was " for my own good " after all.
Could it be that I am starting to understand what is " for my own good? " I mean that in a much larger sense than previously thought. Is this an admission of wrongdoing? No, I wouldn't say that, I would say it is a fresh perspective however. A view I haven't taken before. A revelation? No, not nearly that magnitude, but a glimpse perhaps. Feels more like a surrender than anything else. Well if I am going to surrender, I should, at the very least, leave behind something useful to those that come after me. Life goes on and the battle rages. It's true, sometimes something is " for your own good. "
What is the important stuff? Is it money or material things? It is, for the short term. That's why we buy so much insurance. Insurance is a stop gap measure to ease our burden, or the burden of those left behind. Living goes on, even when our life ends. The important things benefit others more than ourselves. That is the lesson to be learned in all of this. It is also why I say, I have just begun. It isn't an easy transition. I enjoy the creature comforts as much as anyone else, the short term gain. It is harder to concentrate on the long term, especially a term longer than myself. The reason for it is a simple one, there is little short term gain for me. In fact, there are times when working toward the long term you are criticized for your failure to satisfy in the moment.
" It's for your own good. " How many times did you hear that as a child? Then we spend a great deal of our time and effort getting stuff for ourselves. We are concerned with our own good. Or so it would seem. Some of us never understand any of that. Some get fixated on the money and material things, equating them to success. Popularity is of paramount importance to others. Still others get fixated on doing good for the benefit of others, whether the others like it or not. It's for their own good after all. I'm justified in doing so aren't I? I'm doing it for me, but it's really for you. It was " for my own good " after all.
Could it be that I am starting to understand what is " for my own good? " I mean that in a much larger sense than previously thought. Is this an admission of wrongdoing? No, I wouldn't say that, I would say it is a fresh perspective however. A view I haven't taken before. A revelation? No, not nearly that magnitude, but a glimpse perhaps. Feels more like a surrender than anything else. Well if I am going to surrender, I should, at the very least, leave behind something useful to those that come after me. Life goes on and the battle rages. It's true, sometimes something is " for your own good. "
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