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 We work hard to earn and save money. But do we ever visualize what a typical day be like when you are old and retired from work? There are three important question to consider.  1. Will we have enough money to continue leading a good life? 2. How will our health be? 3. What will we do with all the time we will have?  We work on our retirement savings when we are younger and usually, we save enough for old age. In fact we over save. But do we do enough for the question # 2 & 3 above? Don't you think, it's a good idea to work on your health now? Just like we maintain our cars, should't we look after our physical health now and do whatever it takes to stay healthy? And when we are retired, the excess time will stare at us through the day (and night...think about it). We will not know what to do with so much time. Shouldn't we be developing some habits (such as reading, writing, meditation, social work etc) that will fill our days with purpose? In fact the excess free

 When someone you care for cannot see your point of view, it frustrates us. We classify our understanding as 'common sense' and therefore cannot fathom the non-acceptance of something so obvious (to us). That is precisely the point. It's obvious to us and not to the other person because we all have a different world view. We will be wiser if we realize that our aim should not be to align the other person to our world view. We can definitely present our idea and discuss it. But if they cannot see what we are seeing then the vice-versa is also true. We should therefore expand our consciousness. Imagine a very large pitch dark warehouse with thousands of aisles. Let's say there are 10 people in this warehouse and each one has a flashlight. Each one can therefore see only as far as the light shines around him. Now, you may shout from aisle 139 to your friend in aisle 20 and if you expect him to mould his understanding based on your consciousness, then that will be futile. I