n the occasion of World Elderâs Day 2022 we at Team Restory.in wanted to share with you, not wishes or unwanted positivity but instead share something we read that left a significant impact on us.
Full credit to Mr Sahil Bloom who shared this on his Twitter IDÂ https://twitter.com/SahilBloom
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âLast year, I had a conversation that changed my life. It caused me to upend everything and move across the country. The lesson from it may change yours:
I was out for a drink with a friend. Weâll call him George. As we settled in, George asked about my life and how I was feeling.
At first, I gave him the standard response that weâve all grown so accustomed to:
âIâm good. Busy!â He stared blankly through my empty words.
Feeling the pressure of his gaze, I adjusted myself and added that living in California had begun to wear on me, it being so far from my parents on the East Coast.
I had been 3,000 miles away for the last 12 years. And with the path I was on, there was no end in sight.
The moment of vulnerability sparked an interaction that changed my life:
George: âHow often do you see your parents?â
Me: âMaybe once a year now.â
George: âAnd how old are they?â
George: âOk, so youâre going to see them 15 more times before they die.â
Gut punch. I took a deep breath. It wasnât meant to be rudeâit was justâŚmath.
If the average life expectancy is ~80 years, my parents are in their mid-60s, and I see them one time per year, the mathâhowever depressingâsays I will see them 15 more times before they are gone.
Our time together is finite, but we often fail to recognize it until itâs too late.
Time is cruel. Youâll love it with all of your beingâyou may even pray for more of itâbut time doesnât care about you.
Your relationship with time is the ultimate unrequited love.
The morning after this conversation, my wife and I had a very candid conversation about what we wanted in life.
A few days later, we listed our house in California on the market, packed up our things, and shipped off to the East Coast to be closer to our parents.
Itâs been over a year since the conversation that changed my life.
Iâll never regret these tiny momentsâof doing nothing in particularâthat weâll spend together in the years ahead. Iâll never regret the moments my parents get to spend with my son. Iâll never regret any of it.
It brings one takeaway to life: Our time with our loved ones is so limited and precious.
All of this mathâdepressing as it seemsâshould be a call to arms.
Identify the people and activities you care most deeply about. Prioritize them ruthlessly.
It may be difficultâeven painfulâbut itâs a decision youâll never regret. We spend most of our lives playing a game. Everything we do is in anticipation of the future. When that future comes, we simply reset to the next one.
âI canât wait until Iâm 18 so I can [X].â etc etc
Itâs natural, but itâs a dangerous gameâone that we will lose, eventually.
Time is our most precious asset and the present is all thatâs guaranteed.
Spend it wisely, with those you love, in ways youâll never regret.
I hope this thread sparks some of you to have conversations with your loved ones about time (and who you want to spend yours with).
By the way, the point of this thread isnât saying that any decision about where to live is *right* or *wrong*.
We all have to reach our own conclusions.
These are often very challenging decisions with a variety of complex trade-offs.
 Please draw your own conclusions and share your thoughts with us.
On this World Elders Day we felt that this is the most precious message we can share with everyone. Please reshare and forward if you feel someone should read this.
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