Post by annon101 on Mar 26, 2023 13:16:53 GMT 1
Here's a give-away, something wanted, and a job for you, even though you may not realise it...
Too often I look back, reflect on how great I was, and compare the past with the drearyness of the present and the vagueness of the future. Now in retirement I've got too much time to think of the past...
So I've started to drive the past from my mind. Whenever thoughts turn there I stop them dead. Turn attention to the present and to the future. It's one thing to have happy memories, and another to live in the past...
You may be retired yourself. You may spend most of your time in leisure pursuits. You may be comfortably off, and dare I say, smug. It's not these things that made you great in the past. In whatever your field of human endeavour you made a difference in the past.
So go make a difference again, and keep making a difference, not necessarily in the same way as in the past. Me, I help people out in practical work, sometimes working like a dog for a bottle of wine - I don't need anyone's cash - but I get a lot more instead in return. Suddenly I'm great again, and so could you be, and you don't have time to look back...
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Too often I look back, reflect on how great I was, and compare the past with the drearyness of the present and the vagueness of the future. Now in retirement I've got too much time to think of the past...
So I've started to drive the past from my mind. Whenever thoughts turn there I stop them dead. Turn attention to the present and to the future. It's one thing to have happy memories, and another to live in the past...
You may be retired yourself. You may spend most of your time in leisure pursuits. You may be comfortably off, and dare I say, smug. It's not these things that made you great in the past. In whatever your field of human endeavour you made a difference in the past.
So go make a difference again, and keep making a difference, not necessarily in the same way as in the past. Me, I help people out in practical work, sometimes working like a dog for a bottle of wine - I don't need anyone's cash - but I get a lot more instead in return. Suddenly I'm great again, and so could you be, and you don't have time to look back...
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