Quote Originally Posted by HelmutVII View Post
That's a good question.

One thing I have learned is "life is short and I don't have time to play around". Be productive and learn something new every day. Go to bed at night knowing you "did something of substance" that day .

I grow a garden which teaches you a lot about how things work in nature and to be patient. If you take the time to look you can see it. Yogi Berra was a genius when he said "you can observe a lot just by looking"

It's important say less, listen more do even more. Saying less will allow your bull ______ detector to become more accurate. It also gives to the freedom to tell someone "how the cow eats the cabbage".

I see young people today with their heads buried in their pocket computer with a phone app. They are all "prisoners of their own device". I feel that is tragic because "I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see".

Finally, I find it is very important to me to engage in conversation.
“Gods at War” would be a good read for folks like us.