I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.
To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.