"One of the few things worth having in life is experience."I realized this driving one morning to work. The day promised to be busy and difficult, and my stomach sometimes tied to a knot anticipating difficult discussions and some unpleasant tasks. I didn't sleep enough hours some nights before and dreamt about Saturday morning just to sleep at the same time knowing well that I will also have to work on Saturday. The ongoing project I am managing is very challenging, and some of my character traits make it even more difficult for me.
Being quite a materialist myself, loving comfort and nice things, I thought that it is possible to have less stressful and challenging work for the same money, still have the same things in my life, but with less efforts and difficulties....
Thinking all that and turning to the office building I suddenly realized that indeed I might HAVE the same things in life - stuff, car, salary, travels etc. What I will lose is EXPERIENCE. This project from the very beginning was a very interesting experience - starting from the content and ending with all the psychological challenges I had to come through personally. And if I hadn't had it, I would have missed a TASTE of life, a very important piece of my living story, piece that made me who I am today, me, whom I accept and love more than I used to. No stuff would ever give me this feeling.
I realized that having lived and living through situations, fears, successes and failures, having experienced and still experiencing them gives my life much more color and taste than anything else. So, I urge you to HAVE not things in our lives, but experience.
The sand you get on your feet when you walk on the beach is as important as the stuff you accumulate in life as you walk through life.
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