One of the most challenging realities of aging is the shortening runway. When you’re young, time stretches out like a long, open field, you have a long runway. You can run hard, build speed, take risks, and trust that you have enough distance to get airborne. Youth gives you the margin for error: time to […]
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Youth, Age, Energy & Serendipity
In the theater of a single life, where the curtains rise on boundless vitality and fall on quiet acceptance, there unfolds a profound arc shaped by the interplay of energy, time, and fortune. Youth arrives as a lavish subsidy from the universe, a non-renewable gift of effortless abundance, where every sensation is amplified, every risk […]
There comes a moment in life when a person begins to sense his or her own disappearance—not the biological one, but the social one. It is the quiet vanishing of relevance. You leave a job, you sell a business, you step back from the arena of competition, and suddenly, the world looks past you as […]
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Echoes and Shadows of Human Connection
The connections we form in early life, whether with family or friends, carry a profound weight, shaped by biology, culture, and the innocence of our youth. The ties that bind us to others, through blood, friendship, or shared experience, leave an imprint that is both deep and mysterious. From the moment we enter the world, […]
The other day, I was chatting with some friends, middle-aged, like me, with kids and businesses to juggle. I asked them what keeps them up at night as they move forward in life. Was it their children? Their business? Their health? Their personal future, or maybe their wives? What’s the biggest worry on a daily […]