Don't Give Up
Don't let the days slip past you. Treat each one as something handed to you, yours to spend however you decide. Back in school I worked hard, and I had no television and no computer to pull me away from it. My evenings and my weekends went to homework, which is where I wanted them. I'm just as occupied these days. The difference is that now I'll stop sometimes and simply sit, watching the world move along whenever a chance to do that shows up. Usually that happens when the grandchildren are around.
There are two goals I've been chipping away at for the past three or four years, both long-term. Whether I'll ever get to the end of either one, I can't say. The first is about meditation. The second is about working my way through a whole body of spiritual knowledge.
I'd also like to find people who care about the same things I do, and to travel to places I haven't been, so I can keep studying and sharpen what I already know. On any journey, the moment you believe you've touched the horizon, another one appears a little further on. Keep the limits off and the road never actually runs out.