5 Reasons to Stop Trading Your Happiness Now for Later
5 Reasons to Stop Trading Your Happiness Now for Later
Why are we giving up on all shreds of happiness now, for the promise of having it once we retire?
Whether you are working in a 9–5 career or for yourself like me. It’s very easy to put off even the small things that bring you joy with the idea of “later”.
Well, when exactly is later? I’ve been asking myself that lately. Honestly I found is slightly easier to take time when I was working for someone else but I still wasn’t great at it.
We just let it slip away thinking that once we “retire” or something… then we will do the things that we love. See the places that we want to explore, be the people we want to be…
Why are we waiting? I’m touching on 5 reasons not to wait though, the time is now people!
1. Nothing is promised
We may be looking at this future after our regular career and thinking, well that’s when I’ll take a trip to visit my families homeland. Meet my cousins on my dads side and get to know them. Not remembering that they are all 20 years older than us already and by the time we get to that perfect age of no worries they might not remember who we are…perfect!
2. You’re only this young now
Seriously, you’re already older than you were yesterday and it will happen again tomorrow.
If you want to go on the backpacking trip it might be a little easier in your current body than the 70 year old one.
3. Your dreams with change
Do you want the same thing you did as a child? In your 20’s even?
At one point I thought I wanted to live in Alberta, Vancouver, the Island…I thought maybe I’d try working at a resort in Mexico. Nothing to say any of these are bad ideas even now, even for me but my dreams have changed…big time.
Yours probably have also, maybe in different ways than my own but you get my point.
Think about that, they will probably change again, over and over. Go after these current ones closer to now…just sayin.
4. The world might end
If 2020 has taught me anything it’s that things can end in big ways and they just never go back quiet the same way they were before.
Maybe your last year of regular work something bigger and worse comes around… it’s not impossible in my mind anymore honestly.
5. Life stories
There was a song I loved (and still would if I remembered its name) but I digress.
It had this line about causing a little mayhem to have a story to tell your grand babies. Or something like that at least. It was about having stories to tell essentially.
Something I think is good, whatever you may want that to look like for you.
For me, while I write this at the little metal table outside of my motels room in southern BC, on a weekend adventure with my parents and cousin visiting from Scotland…well, I’ve got a story to tell from only one day on the road so far and they are stories that I look forward to reliving to others.
There are going to be so many more reasons to not just life now pass you by. What are some of yours?
