Run, Rabbit, Run

Son, 

Run, Rabbit, Run - soon enough, you’ll be 61! 

You are the rabbit - and life is moving fast.  You imagine the future - but it can only ever be an imagination - you have not lived a day past your age today.

As you look into your past, you can see your evolution - how you have changed, matured, experienced more and more life, to be multiples more powerful that whom you once were.  As you look into the future, what can you see?  Can you see an equally amazing transformation of the you that is here today, into someone multiple times more powerful as you are now?  

Time is ticking .. tick, tick, tick.  Each second that passes is unable to be retrieved, unable to be re-played, unable to be deleted.  What you did, you did. What you missed, you missed. What you got, you got, and what you lost, you lost.  While you are young, you imagine life will go on forever. During peaceful times, mortality is a story, not a reality. It is so easy to meander through these years, truncating the full experience possibilities of your life.   

Carpe Deim - Sieze the Day.  “If it is to be, it is up to me”.  Every day is exchanged for the good and bad we manifest.  How are you swapping your days?  If you are working hard to build resources to get new skills, or have new memories, or stabilize your base, you are doing great.  If you ONLY do this, then you are not enjoying the full potential of life on earth.  We assume our last day is well in the future but we have no idea if we are right.  And so the guidance ‘live every day as if it is your last, because one day, you will be right!’ comes into play.  This is not realistic unless you are a Trust Fund baby, so it’s not about throwing all care to the wind, but it is a ‘mindset’ that you can use in your ‘PLAY HARD, WORK HARDER’ principle.  I like this orientation of ‘Work Hard, Play Hard’ because the focus is reversed - it feels as if the focus is to play hard - go get those experiences.

Every day thinking about adding more to your life - calculating what you need to do to achieve that, and I promise you, you will not believe how soon you are my age - 61.  

This is not any form of encouragement for you to consider yourself at 61 - it is just to let you know it HAPPENS QUICKLY.  As you imagine the future - if anyone older than you gives you warnings or encouragement, STOP and CONSIDER.  We ‘elders’ have been 30, 40 and 50 years old. We have lived some life.  We have had success and failure.  When we see a young friend in the journey of life, we often want to share encouragement and warnings as those who were elder when we were younger, do for us. Of course, their life is not your life, their ‘times’ are not your times, but take a short time to muse ‘What he/she sees in me that inspired that comment?’.  

And so, it will be that, God willing, at the end of the running, you too become 61, and you stand as the patriarchal figure that inspires a new generation  how to map their way into their futures. 

Dad.