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RE: Cancer and life: A Game of chance?
Was thinking the exact same things when we talked earlier :) You never know what life'll throw your way and leaving it till later might really turn into till never, so best to grab life by the balls.
Again, Mt Earnslaw looks freaking amazing. I'm sure that helicopter trip is brilliant and something to remember :)
That's true of course. We are aware of it and work around that unknown whilst trying to find some balance. Living for now is great but we feel a little thought and planning needs to go into to the future. That way we balance out the now and future aspects a little more effectively. Had we lived only for the now in our twenties we wouldn't be travelling all over the place now. It works for us I guess and whilst we want to go everywhere now we also need our jobs to put a roof over our heads, pay for modern societies requirements and fund our travels. We balance it as best we can. Besides, we find value in simple things too so life is pretty good.
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I think it's an excellent balance you have there ;) sure, I'm not saying live only in the now, I too think finding a balance is best. Besides, how long can you live in the now before you start getting tired? And then what happens?
But you see so many people who work and plan for some day far away, like that day is a certainty, a given right when in fact, it's not. You can't know what's the time you'll get and placing all your bets on the later seems risky to me. Obviously, you're not one of those people :)
I think working around the unknown is basically all there is, we're always doing that whether we realize it or not and it seems scary and exciting at the same time...
I'd weight it more to the now however I need to earn money to fund our plans in the short, medium and longer term. If I had the ability not to work I would not and then life would be different.
Still, we do ok...We furnish our life as best we can and live each moment to it's fullest.
We know many of these people...But they are not us. We come home with endless amazing experiences from a 6 week trip overseas of around Australia and they say, "oh, we're going to do that when we retire." We smile and nod but in our heads we're like, "Sure, you are...If you make it."
Again, it comes down to balance.
Exactly. We make plans, work towards them and then execute them with a great deal of passion. Still, the unknown can always affect the best-laid plans right? That doesn't mean a person should make them in the first place. That would be called fear of failure. You know, NOT plan a European trip out of fear that you may die before it happens...Fear of failure.
Plan and be flexible enough to amend or adapt according to the unknown's that may, (or may not) present themselves.
I hate fear of failure - something horrible might happen. Yeah, but something horrible might happen anyway, so what's the sense? Not like I'm gonna keep it from happening by not living my life, is it?
Interesting. Because at first, I was inclined to say who wouldn't? But then, as I thought about it, I realized many people base their life around work. Not happy work like creating something either. But many find purpose in work and refuse to see it as a necessity. They become so defined by who they are as workers that when you take them out of that context, they find they don't have much to live for at all. It's a fascinating part of the modern human, I think.
Exactly. I mean you really might make it, you might find you're perfectly able to do it when you're 70 as well, but why risk it? Why not just go now? It's this worker culture, building towards a promised future that isn't promised at all. Working to stay healthy, working to look good, working for retirement. But these people might never get to retire and they don't seem to get that.
Of course they don't, because most people don't seem capable of imagining the world without their preciousness in them.
I am going now...But my life isn't a fairy tale where I can just jet-set around the world like Rumplestiltskin. I go away, then save up to go next time, then go again, all the while furnishing my life with every important and valued aspect along the way.
Some don't have the financial ability to go at all. It may be because they have family commitments or simply don't earn enough money. I understand that some can't just do whatever it is their heart desires. I respect those who don't defer to credit spending to do it as well! Life is complicated sometimes. Sure, we can uncomplicate it and live in a cave...But it's doubtful that person would be flying around the world right?
Work is a means to an end to me. We have a pretty good life here HD, one I don't go into in any great detail on the platform or with anyone outside my circle. We're content with the balance we create although I'd rather not work if I didn't have to. We don't have a money tree though and so I work to earn it.
I rarely spend time lamenting other people's decisions to put things off until the are 70. Screw them, they make their choice, I don't need to give it any of my time. I spend a lot of time designing and creating my ideal life though and I am very confident that should you see a snapshot of it you'd approve and comment that things are well on track. 😊
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True, some people can't afford to go. Some just complicate their lives and buy a lot of stuff they don't really need, also. We live very consumerist times and the truth is if we kept from buying useless things for a year, we could get enough money for a trip. Not everyone, some people are actually hard up and need that money for other things, but also some are not.
It doesn't matter, anyway. Everybody lives their own life as he/she sees fit.
I'm sure I would be. I often think about the people around me and about their lives (it's good to analyze people, gives you an in-depth understanding of how they work) and you're not among the ones who don't seem happy or caught up in lives they don't really want. :)