One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.
I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.
I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.