I'm presently 67. But, when I was 21 in 1969 I looked forward into the future and couldn't figure out a way for me to survive that I could stand to live with. So, I decided likely I would die before age 25. This is what I really thought. Even at age 25 I used to say to my friends, "Maybe I'll just sequentially keep dating women one at a time the rest of my life. However, a year later I was married and my wife was already pregnant with my son.
Somehow this changed everything and I could no longer be selfish the ways I had been before. No matter what I wanted I had to raise my son right. It no longer mattered what I wanted. Everything had changed.
I guess what I'm saying here is: "You don't know what the future is going to bring." You might even be able to see into the future like I always could. But, what you don't know usually at that age, is that LIFE is NOT about fitting into the world. LIFE is about creating the world you want to live in more than anything else. Fitting into the world isn't going to make you happy enough to stay alive.
ONLY designing a world you can stand to live in will.
Understanding this one thing is the key to longevity I believe. You have to create the world you want to live in because it doesn't exist yet. You have to engineer it and work for it and to recognize the pieces of it when it comes by for you to create it with.
Whether that is a job or career or a move to another location or whatever it is, you have to go do it yourself. No one is going to create the world you want to live in but you. So, if you die trying to create the world you want to live in it is better than living in a world you cannot stand to live in any longer.
Understanding this is a key to creating the life ongoing that you can stand to live ongoing.
To survive your future you have to design, create and build it with God's help and By God's Grace.
To survive your future you have to be present enough to design and create it. Only then do you have any chance at all to be happy in your lives.
Sometimes happiness comes directly from the struggle to create a life you can stand to live.
Remember, "Nothing ventured nothing Gained".
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