"The days are long and the years are short"
A lovely quote I read yesterday on a book that I was looking at buying.
The good days pass quickly and the hard days pass slowly; the years pass in a blink of an eye.
Many years ago one of my friends and next door neighbour at the time, Simon was sitting with me on a Sunday evening and told me to phone in sick the next day to play golf (i'm sorry if i've posted this before but I don't think I have). I told him that I wasn't the type of guy that phoned in sick and I didn't let people down. He muttered the immortal words which i've shared with many people over the years "If you phone in sick and play gold tomorrow you'll never forget it. If you go to work you'll never remember it"
The truth is that I can't remember what decade we have the conversation because I went to work. The answers not to take a sicky, the answer is to have more days that create more memories as a reference point and a pin in the map of your life.
Last week I cycled with my friend Dominic in Yorkshire. We had the most incredible, adventurous, problematic and unforgettable cycling day you can imagine. It didn't go perfectly to plan but i'll never forget it. It was Thursday 1st September 2016.
Had I gone to work that day I may not have created any significant memory to take forward. For me now it's never about the shiny, bright things - it's about the experiential economy and spending what money I have managed to accumulate on creating memories to keep the days long and lengthen the years.
Blog Post Number: 1059
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