this is quite natural for a child, because everything is new and exciting, and worth looking forward to. This is more challenging for adults, who think we’ve “been there, done that”, act and think in our preset ways, and are averse to moving out of our comfort zones, for different reasons, legitimate as they may be.

one requires youth to make the most of this Dance of Life, and Samuel Ullman defines it so eloquently in the following passage of his famous essay, “Youth”:

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“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. …”
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No, I’m afraid Trent is not available for book consulting.

My one question is Trent available for giving feedback?

This goes against the grain of this very Machiavellian world where “the end justifies the means” and people do not care whose toes or heads they step on just to obtain their goal, because so-called modern norms will hail them as heroes. Most of the time however, people will really remember you not for what you achieved per se, but for how you treated them along the way.

This is also like your article “Be Present, Be Powerful, Be Timeless!”, where one pays attention to the various “distractions” He sends our way as we pursue the goals we set for ourselves, as most of the time we will be judged by Him by how we meet His “distractions” and not our own pre-set goals.

It is also a philosophy of life to treat each challenge that gets sent our way as a character-building opportunity that adds color to our life. It is also the difference between coping with a problem, or embracing and living it.

Each of our lives is as evanescent as those sort-lived particles being studied under great expense in particle colliders; just like the particles, it’s the trace we leave behind during our short life that matters, and this is the basis of others’ memories of our life.