And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
from Time, Pink Floyd
It’s hard to be lazy. It’s hard to spend all day wandering on World Wide Web. It’s hard to watch TV all afternoon. It’s hard to play computer games all night. (Unless you are getting huge amount of money for doing any of these.) At the moment it’s the easiest thing to do, but what about tomorrow? Or next month? Or next year? All you can show is wasted time!
Be indispensible!
When we’re young, we dream what we’ll become when we are older. But real life turns out to be different than we expected. There’s so many setbacks, that we simply throw our dreams in recycle bin. We never get the same ones back. They’re recycled. We realize that real life is not what we thought the life is, so we get that boring job, go on vacation when our boss says it’s OK, we get that decent paycheck every month. What else could we expect, that’s real life, not the one we dreamed of when we were young.
What is your real life?
I spend previous week in ski resort Verbier, Switerland. An European Mecca for freeride skiers. There’s just so much off-piste terrain. Of course most obvious routes become powderless in minutes, but if you are prepared to put some effort in your ski run there’s plenty of untracked snow (that means walking for 10-20min). Sure slashing powder is fun, but the challenge is to ski the steeper, narrower slope. Even better if there’s a 4m drop in between. It feels so good at the end of the day, when you know you pushed yourself a little further today. You really deserve that bottle of beer (or 3, heh). But the same principle is in every aspect of life, so I’m constantly looking for new challenges!
