It’s rather disturbing, because when you’re young you think so much is important, including oneself. But as you get older, I think you find less and less is important, apart from some very, very fundamental things, one of them being a love for one’s fellow man, and a care for their survival. And a care for one’s immediate family, then friends and then wider, like a circle, like ripples in water.
DAVD BOWIE
Do you have your priorities in order?
Most of us live in a world of materialism, conquest, and acquisitions of toys, trinkets, property, and more… but at the end of the day, is that genuinely what is most important in life?
Or is it possible that in the course of our continuously working ourselves mercilessly, to acquire said trinkets, that we are mortgaging the greater resource in our life, which is our time, our health, and our ability to be genuine and present with the people in our world that matter to us?
We are continuously bombarded by messaging and stimulation that motivates the ongoing quest for acquisition. It comes to us through every resource in our lives, through both the media, as well as our personal and professional relationships.
There is a misconception that life is always going to be happier when you get to a specific place or when you own a specific item, but as David Bowie has most adeptly stated, the older we get, the more we recognize that the true value in life is measured by the people whom we care most about, and who care most about us.
In this dynamic, we find a much more robust and potentially hidden quality about ourselves that becomes unlocked upon our continuous exposure to people whom we treasure in our lives, and whose presence makes us feel rich and rewarded for having invested time and energy with them.
If we were wiser, we might have actually embodied this lesson at a much earlier stage, so that a greater percentage of our lives might be spent benefiting from the wisdom of those who have been there before us and understanding how and why we are to prioritize components of our time schedule that facilitate the direct enjoyment of these people and the tremendous joy they bring to our world.
We are ultimately here for such a short stretch of time, would it not make sense, then, to prioritize the variables in our world that make us truly happy, and thereby learn to appreciate how and why these relationships are so essential to the ultimate quality of our lives?
Happy Friday!
Brian Weiner 