As I spend time with my elderly parents, I am made acutely aware of a few things:
1. Prioritize your health over everything. People are 'healthy' until one day they're not and it seems impossible to get back. Being trapped in a decrepit body is an early Hell.
1. Prioritize your health over everything. People are 'healthy' until one day they're not and it seems impossible to get back. Being trapped in a decrepit body is an early Hell.
2. If you don't stay curious, you will spend the rest of your days rotting away in front of a TV with nothing to talk about, lost in a new world, surrounded by things you don't understand.
3. Your friends will move or die and relationships will fade. If you dont continuously make friends and tend to your existing relationship garden, you will end your life desperate and alone.
4. The Five Regrets of the Dying are true, but they are also just The Five Regrets of the Old. Work less, love more, and have a robust life. You'll barely rememberthe 100 hour weeks you pulled for that one promotion, don't die for it.
5. Seek out transcendent and novel experiences. Dance in the drum circle, talk to a lowercase god whenever and however you can, climb mountains physically, mentally, and spiritually, and continually explore the boundaries of what you know. These will be the core of your being.
I'm sure there are more lessons, but these are the ones that resonate with me.
