If you aren’t getting older, you are dead.
“If you aren’t getting older, you are dead” is a quote I try to think on as I lament the aches and pains of an aging body. How times change. At some point you trade, or you ideally trade, personal and often fleeting/short-lived happiness for longer, more lasting meaning. And much of that meaning comes from the people close to you succeeding, growing, having their own happiness. Seeing them happy. Almost every decision I make now is about creating meaning and a meaningful life: “What can I do to add meaning to my life, to be around people who bring meaning to me, and to share with others these growth moments?” I love life, being wild and free and growing older is just part of life. "I'm not afraid of getting older I'm one less day from dying young I see the light go past my shoulder I'm one less day from dying young I see my life Like a train with a one-way track I've made mistakes And I couldn't take 'em back And I've been runnin' 'round in c...
