Recently I heard people talking as I did way back when I was in the army, counting the days to go back home. They were talking with excitement about how much more until retirement. One of them said excitedly “Only seven years” and the other a little less excited “ten more for me.” That conversation is a sad story of all of us. We are plugged in, and we forget about our lives. We have been programmed to think that having a happy life can happen when we retire and not one moment before. We are so convinced that life is hard and full of unexpected, unfortunate events, that we forget to live. We pass through life like robots. We have become motorized humans that have no direction but only an engine. Living in Romania, we used to joke saying that we discover that is life even before death, but we come to realize that jokes like that are universal. We keep moving faster and faster missing the essential things through our existence. We spend more time working a job than playing with our kids. We want to make more and more money, and we forget to love out of tiredness. That is a real drama. We must slow down and look around. We would be amazed by the beauty of the world. When our speed is low enough, we could see all of the God’s creations. We miss so much in this life, and that is not fair. We have been given a life, and we are trying so hard to waste it.
When we love life, life is going to love us back. When we fear death; we do not live the life, we just do not die. We must enjoy life as kids, or as adults before and after retirement because life is a great gift from God.