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Your life one small step at a time
Stop worrying about forever and concentrate on what is next
You agonize about finding the perfect career to last a lifetime; getting pushed in your 20s to declare a path expected to last until you die.
You lie down at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering why you haven’t yet found that relationship you were told should be the “for the rest of my life” choice you must have to define your life.
You lose sleep over your personal lifestyle, feeling compelled to choose now, today, where you will live forever, the home you need to buy you can’t afford, and where you will send the kids you haven’t had yet to school someday.
Your parents, and the culture they reflected from that generation, believed your life had to be planned in your 20s until the day you retired, or died
Statistically, most of you under 40 could live well into your 90s, and beyond, and there are gerontologists who believe there are people living under the age of 30 that could someday push the 150-year-old barrier.
But does anyone believe any 30-year-old person has to know now what he or she wants to do for the next 60 years of their life? We simply live too long to make a choice now with a forever outcome.
