Nice. And sometimes after you make an intentional decision that is difficult to make, you second guess yourself at a later point: next day or next decade. From that perspective, compassion is a helpful reminder that everything is always ok. 🙌🏼
Max...what a beautiful setting!.......Please read the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. It is my favorite poem, and I have memorized it . Thank you for your beautiful conversation with us all!
EACH OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS, I HAVE SENT YOU A COMMENT ON SOME OF MY MEMORIES OF RAISING CHICKENS WHEN I WAS A TEEN. I AM CONCERNED THAT I GOT THEM POSTED TOO LATE FOR YOU TO SEE THEM. THE SECOND OF THOSE COMMENTS I BELIEVE COULD BE SIGNICANTLY HELPFUL.
TODAY, I WANT TO EMBROIDER A BIT ON YOUR EXCELLENT OBSERVATIONS ABOUT TIME. FIRST, ALLOW ME TQ TELL A LITTLE STORY ABOUT OUR PERCEPTION OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME AS WE BECOME OLDER.
A FRIEND AND I WERE HAVING AFTER DINNER CONVERSATION.
WE WERE FORMER CLASSMATES AND BOTH WERE IN OUR 31ST YEAR AT THE TIME. I TOLD THE STORY OF MY MOTHER PREPARING LAST MINUTE DETAILS FOR A PARTY SHE WAS GIVING FOR MY 5TH BIRTHDAY, AND HOW I WAS DRIVING HER CRAZY AS SHE WAS MAKING THESE LAST MINUTE PREPARATIONS. I MUST HAVE ASKED HER NOT LESS THAN 20 TIMES DURING THAT LAST TEN MINUTES, "IS IT TIME YET?" "IS
IT TIME YET?" "IS IT TIME?" THAT LAST TEN MINUTES SEEMED TO BE AN ETERNITY AT AGE 5, BUT BY AGE 30, IT WAS A RUSH TO FIX A CUP OF INSTANT COFFEE IN A TEN MINUTE COFFEE BREAK. MY FRIEND AND I THEORIZED ABOUT THIS DIFFERENCE IN PERCEPTION OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME BETWEEN A FIVE YEAR OLD AND A THIRTY YEAR OLD. MY FRIND EXPRESSED IT LN MATHEMATICAL TERMS. TEN MINUTES REPRESENTS A MUCH LARGER FRACTION OF OUR LIFE AT AGE FIVE THAN AT AGE 30. BY AGE 30, TEN MINUTES REPRESENTS ONLY THE TINIEST FRACTION OF OUR TOTAL TIME ON PLAVET EARTH.
I CONCURRED, BUT SUGGESTD THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL LIFE EXPERIENCES OVER THE INTERVENING 25 YEARS WAS PROVIDING BRAIN CLUTTER WHICH SERVED TO COLLAPSE THE PERCEPTION OF TME PASSAGE.
AND JUST IMAGINE HOW FLEETING IS TEN MINUTES TO AN OCTOGENARIAN---WITH FINAL DEMISE LURKING JUST AROUND THE CORNER. AND THE URGENCY HE FEELS TO GET INTO HARDCOPY SOME OF WHAT HAS LODGED BETWEEN HIS EARS OVEE A LIFETIME.
TIME IS ALL WE HAVE IN LIFE. SO YES, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE REALIZE THE VALUE OF TIME EARLY IN LIFE, AND CHOOSE CAREFYLLY HOW WE EXPEND IT. I PERCEIVE THAT YOU ARE WISE BEYOND YOUR YEARS IN YOUR APPRAISAL OF THE VALUE OF TIME. AND YOU ARE BEING OF GREAT SERVICE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN BY EXPRESSING YOUR IDEAS IN YOUR PROGRESS REORTS---WHETHER IN WRITING OR IN VIDEO FORMAT.
IN HIGH SCHOOL, OUR TEACHERS WOULD OFTEN QUOTE TO US, "PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF TIME." IN THIS ORWELLIAN WORLD, THERE IS A FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT THIEF OF TIME. AND, IT IS INTENTIONAL AND IT IS MALIGNANT. MORE ON THIS LATER. I PROMISE.
You're on the right path, Maxim. I had the same thoughts as you back in the day about the 'standard' approach to life, and rejected it. I wanted adventure, so I quit college, took a bicycle adventure around the U.S., Ontario, Canada, U.K. and France of some 10,000 miles, climbed mountains, and had lots of adventures along the way. I finally went back to college, joined the USAF and flew jet fighters as a navigator, and retired. I wrote books and now I write and record songs simply because I want to. I took the path less traveled and enrolled in the school of hard knocks and never looked back - and wouldn't have changed a thing... Best of luck! Mark
Nice. And sometimes after you make an intentional decision that is difficult to make, you second guess yourself at a later point: next day or next decade. From that perspective, compassion is a helpful reminder that everything is always ok. 🙌🏼
Max...what a beautiful setting!.......Please read the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. It is my favorite poem, and I have memorized it . Thank you for your beautiful conversation with us all!
Thank you! I'm going to read the poem now.
PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS--ALMOST BLIND
HI MAXIM,
EACH OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS, I HAVE SENT YOU A COMMENT ON SOME OF MY MEMORIES OF RAISING CHICKENS WHEN I WAS A TEEN. I AM CONCERNED THAT I GOT THEM POSTED TOO LATE FOR YOU TO SEE THEM. THE SECOND OF THOSE COMMENTS I BELIEVE COULD BE SIGNICANTLY HELPFUL.
TODAY, I WANT TO EMBROIDER A BIT ON YOUR EXCELLENT OBSERVATIONS ABOUT TIME. FIRST, ALLOW ME TQ TELL A LITTLE STORY ABOUT OUR PERCEPTION OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME AS WE BECOME OLDER.
A FRIEND AND I WERE HAVING AFTER DINNER CONVERSATION.
WE WERE FORMER CLASSMATES AND BOTH WERE IN OUR 31ST YEAR AT THE TIME. I TOLD THE STORY OF MY MOTHER PREPARING LAST MINUTE DETAILS FOR A PARTY SHE WAS GIVING FOR MY 5TH BIRTHDAY, AND HOW I WAS DRIVING HER CRAZY AS SHE WAS MAKING THESE LAST MINUTE PREPARATIONS. I MUST HAVE ASKED HER NOT LESS THAN 20 TIMES DURING THAT LAST TEN MINUTES, "IS IT TIME YET?" "IS
IT TIME YET?" "IS IT TIME?" THAT LAST TEN MINUTES SEEMED TO BE AN ETERNITY AT AGE 5, BUT BY AGE 30, IT WAS A RUSH TO FIX A CUP OF INSTANT COFFEE IN A TEN MINUTE COFFEE BREAK. MY FRIEND AND I THEORIZED ABOUT THIS DIFFERENCE IN PERCEPTION OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME BETWEEN A FIVE YEAR OLD AND A THIRTY YEAR OLD. MY FRIND EXPRESSED IT LN MATHEMATICAL TERMS. TEN MINUTES REPRESENTS A MUCH LARGER FRACTION OF OUR LIFE AT AGE FIVE THAN AT AGE 30. BY AGE 30, TEN MINUTES REPRESENTS ONLY THE TINIEST FRACTION OF OUR TOTAL TIME ON PLAVET EARTH.
I CONCURRED, BUT SUGGESTD THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL LIFE EXPERIENCES OVER THE INTERVENING 25 YEARS WAS PROVIDING BRAIN CLUTTER WHICH SERVED TO COLLAPSE THE PERCEPTION OF TME PASSAGE.
AND JUST IMAGINE HOW FLEETING IS TEN MINUTES TO AN OCTOGENARIAN---WITH FINAL DEMISE LURKING JUST AROUND THE CORNER. AND THE URGENCY HE FEELS TO GET INTO HARDCOPY SOME OF WHAT HAS LODGED BETWEEN HIS EARS OVEE A LIFETIME.
TIME IS ALL WE HAVE IN LIFE. SO YES, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE REALIZE THE VALUE OF TIME EARLY IN LIFE, AND CHOOSE CAREFYLLY HOW WE EXPEND IT. I PERCEIVE THAT YOU ARE WISE BEYOND YOUR YEARS IN YOUR APPRAISAL OF THE VALUE OF TIME. AND YOU ARE BEING OF GREAT SERVICE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN BY EXPRESSING YOUR IDEAS IN YOUR PROGRESS REORTS---WHETHER IN WRITING OR IN VIDEO FORMAT.
IN HIGH SCHOOL, OUR TEACHERS WOULD OFTEN QUOTE TO US, "PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF TIME." IN THIS ORWELLIAN WORLD, THERE IS A FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT THIEF OF TIME. AND, IT IS INTENTIONAL AND IT IS MALIGNANT. MORE ON THIS LATER. I PROMISE.
SINCERELY,
LIAM OF LIAM'S LADDER
Our most precious commodity is time.
Well said Liam a new perspective from the paradox; the older you get the quicker time fly's.
Even this older guy continues to keep doing, challenge views, experience something new, and embark on anything that attracts interest.
Mr. Smith, keep up the good work.
Steady hands keep the devil busy. Another one from recollection.
You're on the right path, Maxim. I had the same thoughts as you back in the day about the 'standard' approach to life, and rejected it. I wanted adventure, so I quit college, took a bicycle adventure around the U.S., Ontario, Canada, U.K. and France of some 10,000 miles, climbed mountains, and had lots of adventures along the way. I finally went back to college, joined the USAF and flew jet fighters as a navigator, and retired. I wrote books and now I write and record songs simply because I want to. I took the path less traveled and enrolled in the school of hard knocks and never looked back - and wouldn't have changed a thing... Best of luck! Mark