I can't believe we're more than half way into November. I look back on the year and ask myself, "What have I done with my life this year?" Sure, I finally started boxing and enrolled/completed an introductory Mandarin course but did I take steps toward becoming a better man? A better person?
My coworker recently asked me, "Why do you keep yourself so busy? Why do you box and hit the gym? Why do you take Mandarin? Why are you trying to become a better person when we're all just going to die anyway?" I honestly couldn't think of a quick, solid answer to his question...
Maybe the better question to ask myself is not whether or not I've become a better person but why I spend so much time and energy trying to better myself...
I kind of have an idea as to why I am the way I am. But the quick answer I give you now is that I find keeping myself busy to be a better solution than keeping myself idle.
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca
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