Advice to my child by Peter Meinke

One of the large paradoxes in life is trying to impart wisdom that you've garnered in your own life to other ones while letting them retain their own identity. Ihave found in my own life, as numerous others have discovered in theirs, that it can be difficult to learn vicariously through another individual, rather than having to discover from your own life experiences. Still though, there is likely not a lone individual who would state that if they had the information and wisdom that they actually have at a juvenile age, would not do some things differently. As such, every parent faces the tough conundrum of trying to overtake down to their young kids that which they have wise in their life in a way that is both applicable and convincing but furthermore allows for the detail that their young kids are going to have to learn numerous of these courses for themselves.

"The trick is, to reside your days As if each one may be your last (for they go very quick, and juvenile men misplace their lives in odd and unimaginable ways)"(Quoted from "Advice to My child" by Peter Meinke [1932])

When the World Trade Center dropped, I knew everything would be different. Iknew that I myself had currently altered, and would never be the identical again. All the past values, all of the preceding convictions, everything had now been altered. Iutilised to desire to do things right away, but I was furthermore always eager to let it overtake for the next day or next week. Iwould procrastinate everything, and wouldn't brain waiting until a later date. But now, instead of saying "Well, perhaps we will do that next week,"it became "Let's proceed do it." Everything turned from a "wait-for-tomorrow' mind-set to a ...