I’ve been interested in self improvement for quite some time now, and I’m obviously an advocate of striving to improve your own life. After all, it’s one of the main reasons I started Find Your Peak. Working hard to better yourself is one of the best things you can do, but it’s also important to enjoy each stage of your life while it’s happening. If you aren’t careful, your life will pass you by before you know it.
High School: The Best Years of Your Life?
A lot of teenagers spend their senior year of high school eager to graduate and start college. High school is full of its own important milestones, but football games and the prom won’t be half as much fun as college, right? After all, the college years are the best years of your life! You get to live on your own for the first time without Mom or Dad constantly looking over your shoulder and you can eat or drink whatever you want, whenever you want it. There will be wild frat parties every single weekend and you won’t even have to wake up early unless you want to. Besides, most professors don’t even care if you show up for class!
College: The Best Years of Your Life?
A lot of college students spend their last year as an undergraduate eager to finally earn that degree and get out there into the real world. Working a full-time job will be so much easier than cramming for exams and writing term papers, won’t it? Renting your own apartment for the first time is going to seem like total heaven after sharing a dorm room with an annoying roommate for the last four years. You’ll finally be earning a paycheck that doesn’t come from a gig waiting tables, and everyone will have tons of respect for a college graduate! They’ll be begging to hire you!
Parenthood: The Best Years of Your Life?
A lot of new parents tell themselves that things will get easier once the baby is four or five months old. After all, he’ll start sleeping for longer periods of time, and once he starts eating baby food, less money will be spent on cans of formula. That will be great! Pretty soon potty training will come along, and you know what that leads too—no more money being spent on diapers! Cha-ching! Then it’s time for pre-school, which means kindergarten is right around the corner. Whew! You’ll get a lot more accomplished during the day while he’s in school! But a few years later you’ll look back and think, “What happened to my baby? Why was I so eager for him to grow up so quickly?”
Appreciate the Best Years of Your Life
Hopefully by now you see where I was going with this. It’s all too easy to look so far into the future that you ignore all the good stuff that’s going on around you right now. You might not want to listen to me, but it’s tough to ignore the Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen:
“But time slips away, leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of
Glory days
They’ll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl’s eye…”
Bruce knew what he was talking about. So with that, I suggest you don’t let your glory days pass you by. Start enjoying the best years of your life today.
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You are right, Sean.
Best Years of Our Life are passing by. We should enjoy every day of our life.
Life is very short.
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People (at least some people) start appreciating their days only when they are showed that these days are countable and very quickly can come to the end. It happened to me about ten years ago when I was dying (really dying) – I realized that the world would go on and I would die. And as soon as I recovered I am happy with any day that has passed. I appreciate any minute – good or bad. And I don’t understand the people who are not happy. They should be happy because they live.
Thanks for the comment Anna!
I am glad to hear you recovered. Yes, people do only realize how precious things are when they almost (or do) lose them. It would be a completely different world if somehow people could realize how finite things are and start appreciating them long before they are gone!
Stephen Leacock said it well:
The child says, “When I am a big boy.”
The big boy says, “When I grow up.”
The grown up says, “When I get married.”
The married say, “When I’m retired.”
Riley
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