- Things sown during the twenties were slowly and constantly reaped in the forties. Not (just) money, but more like habits, mindset, struggles, and any hard choices made in the 20s start returning the investment in the 40s. At least, it makes life slightly easier than many.
- As a parent, I just realized that the training to deal with a certain decade starts a decade before.
- Any training done consistently in any decade will compound in the subsequent decades. We really become what we repeat over and over again. The good and the bad. Unless we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life, and we call it fate, said Jung.
- To be authentically transparent and honest about ourselves, it’s essential to have regular alone time during our youth. To separate from the crowd, to listen closely to your own voice and thoughts, and to think about where we want to go and what we should do to get there. If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable, said Seneca. Being able to sit with yourself is a highly underrated skill that many people don’t realize the importance of.
- Two hardest ibadah in Islam are two : Shalat and marriage. One that we have to do daily, maintain regularly, and take care of mindfully. Two that if we neglect, the effects won’t show instantly, but slowly, unnoticed, and before we know it, it crashes the entire system. Taking care those two is the foundation of sanity in adults life. Nothing really works if these two don’t.
I really need to break the writing absence by starting small.
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