Learn it at 30, not at 60

Asked when they learned what mattered most in life, one elder said: "I wish I'd learned that in my thirties instead of my sixties!" The fact that life is short is not sad information; it's an instruction. That day he said the thing he had postponed: "Without you my whole day falls apart. Thank you." He said at forty what he would have said at seventy. Time is of the essence. Live as though life is short — because it is.