20/05/2026
You have all the time in the world until one day.. you don't.
And I don't mean that in a gloomy or tragic way. I mean it as a literal fact. Apply it how you like to any thing, situation or circumstance or relationship in your life.
One day, you find yourself at the exact moment you had waited for, prepared for braced for all of your life. This could be right at the cusp of starting a new company, going on that Euro tour you always dreamed about, starting your dream job, getting married..
One day it's the last day of your previous life up until that point when suddenly it changes forever and you.. almost unexpectedly.. are asked to change WITH it.
No one prepares for this.
See your mentality often lags behind your actual growth.
Nothing 'wrong' or 'broken' about that. Nothing to 'fix' about this really..
But a great deal of adjustment, acclimatization and optimization that you need to make with it.
The ways you think you'll fall short are often not how you fall short. The ways you always imagined you had 'enough time to fix' are where suddenly life pushes the fast forward button on and brings you face to face with.
Health, age, debt, responsibility.. you name it.
Situations have a funny way of sneaking up on you when you're busy elsewhere.
You're busy keeping your business afloat and when you're finally on top of things, your kids are suddenly all grown up and don't really need you that much anymore. They have their own lives by then.
You're busy focusing on your career and by the time you're finally on top, suddenly starting a family is a challenge you need to wade through. IVF, doctor visits and what not.
You're busy focusing on settling abroad and settling into a new life 4000 miles away from home and suddenly your parents are old and now you feel guilty you can't spend enough time with them.
Almost everybody will be humbled by how fast life moves compared to how fast they thought it would.
There's no 'universal fix' for this.
The only thing that provides some semblance of help.. is the recognition that your time is limited and there's nothing you can do about it.
"Memento Mori" said the Stoics.
"Remember You Must Die". That's the translation for it.
And I must REITERATE I don't mean to remind you of this in a shocking, sad, tragic or reflective even philosophical way.
I merely wish for you to realize that if life is REALLY as limited and FINITE as we all shall ultimately realize in some part of our life in some shape or form.. sooner or later..
Then WHERE IS the TIME to waste on regret, toxicity, fake relationships, mediocre experiences and forlorn duties?
There should be NO room in your life for ANYTHING that robs you of vital energy you need to live at your HIGHEST potential.. to embody your highest EXPRESSION.
NONE. ZILCH. NADA. NYET.
Get me?
And you know why?
Because DOING what YOU want to do..
LIVING as WHO YOU want to live..
is in itself a rare endeavor that only a minuscule lucky minority will ever be able to pull off in a vast sea of mediocre sameness.
That is a full time job requiring constant full time attention.
You can either live FULLY or you can live how everybody else EXPECTS you to live.
I'd bet my money on living fully any day of the week. Not 'fully' as in 'irresponsibly' or 'nonchalantly'.
No. 'Fully' as in fully in ALIGNMENT with one's purpose. As one feels it. Deeply. Unmovably. Unchangeably. Unshakably.
Live like that.
You will still die.
Haha.
But with a lot less regrets.
A lot better memories and lot more fulfillment about this physical experience that we call... life.
In the end, that's the only thing that matters.
Hari Om!
--Jay