33 is young. :-)
Here’s how to look at age: No matter what age you are, think of how you’ll look back on that age 10 years from now.
Ten years from now, when you’re 43, you’ll look back at 33 and wonder, “Why did I think my best years were gone?”
My little miniature dachshund was named Clara. As a puppy, Clara would run around the room as fast as her little short legs would take her. Then one day, out of nowhere, she interrupted her run to leap up onto the couch, her first time ever. She stopped and looked stunned as she viewed the room from this new vantage point.
That’s what retirement was like for me. I’d expected to die on the job at 80, so when I leaped onto retirement island at 62, it was having no idea what to do. Twenty years later, I still don’t. Heh.
That is insightful and wise.
I wish I could really do that New Age "live in the moment" stuff. I'm always in the past (either nostalgia or regrets and bitter grudges) and the future (how can I suvive financially, what about health problems for my wife and self and are the Socialist Dems going to wipe out our Republic soon?).
Should live in today.