But sometimes really important ideas are really simple. They don't need an epic context to explain or substantiate them. The most profound thing I've ever read was on a scrap of paper stuck to a friend's parents' fridge:
No one ever lay on his deathbed and wished he'd spent more time at the office.I love this line. It is both a literal fact and a meme. Substitute "at the office" with "doing laundry" or "being afraid" or "holding a grudge" or "waiting" and soon you have a little test that you can apply to every little decision you make in a day. Just today I decided making my daughter's birthday special - by spending it with her - was more important than cleaning the house for her party.
The one little problem with writing a brilliant pearl of wisdom, as opposed to a tome of it, is that it gets paraphrased all over tarnation and attribution rarely survives.
Great post. I especially like the quote. Applying it to myself, I would insert 'waiting' at the end. We can't just wait for a book to get published, we need to begin the next one and continue forward. That's a good reminder for me. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU, Roxy.
ReplyDeleteThis is profound and amazing and so simple it almost hurts. Absolutely words to live by.
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