Five 20 dollar bills

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Five 20 dollar bills

A person's life is not long. I've said it countless times: If I take a 100 dollar bill and exchange it for 5 20 dollar bills, then any 20 dollar bill out of those 5 has the same value, each has the same value. But the time in human life is not like that. The first twenty years of life are not like the next twenty years. That is: From 1 to 20 years old: those 20 years are not the same as from 20 to 40, then the time from 40 to 60 is not the same as the previous 20 years. Then from 60 to 80: it is counted as 20 years, true, but the things that we can do in those years are few, very few, ladies and gentlemen, very few.

There are many things we need the enthusiasm of youth. There are many things that require the maturity. The kind of maturity only found in an older person, an adult who has experienced life. Then there are many things we need the calmness of someone who has finished their work, which is old age. Right?

Some periods, some moments are ideal for certain jobs. Each 20 years in my life has a different value and in each 20 years of my life, I do different things. From 1 to 20, there are things I refuse to do. For example, here I am speaking of life out there: If you don't get a baccalaureate degree by the age of 20, your life is over. From 1 to 20 years old, if you don't get a baccalaureate degree, you're doomed. For the next 20 years, not being able to find a stable career your livelihood is doomed. See? If you can't find a stable career, you're doomed. That is from 20 to 40. From 40 to 60 without having a stable career - career is defined as about money, about home, about marriage, family, in general - your life is a waste... From 60 to 80, if you can't maintain your health, you're doomed.

See? It's so clear. This means that at each stage of our lives, we only do a few things, and the psychological conditions of each age group are not the same. There are many things where we need the enthusiasm of youth and but now your youth no longer exists. There are many times when we need the calmness and gentleness of the elderly, but unfortunately at this time we are already too worn out, we have missed the stage of calmness, now we enter the stage of dementia. of messed up mind.

Understanding this, I realised, "Oh! So time is so precious." The days of about lazying around, tossing and turning, is a waste that cannot be ignored. That has to be repeatedly mentioned. Let's just remember: Illness can come to us at any time, death can come to us at any time, accidents can come to us at any time. It's such an easy thing to happen. Illness, accident, death, many other things, scandals, lawsuits... Who knows? Hatred, who knows? Those things are all hanging on the sky and they can just fall out of nowhere. They fell from the sky and hit us just like that.

Therefore, there is not much time in human life, it is not enough for us to waste it by seeking rest and sleep.


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