It's my birthday
May. 4th, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsdrCoincidentally, this showed up on a mailing list I subscribe to:
Cicero, the great Roman statesman (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.), set down what he considered to be the three most drastic mistakes people can make:
I. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
II. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
III. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
It took me a lot of years and troubles to even begin to start on 1 & 3; and 2 is easy to forget the importance of as well. Now if I can just get better at "living the moment."
It's taken 39 years to get me where I am and I wonder where I'll be in another 39.
Cicero, the great Roman statesman (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.), set down what he considered to be the three most drastic mistakes people can make:
I. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
II. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
III. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
It took me a lot of years and troubles to even begin to start on 1 & 3; and 2 is easy to forget the importance of as well. Now if I can just get better at "living the moment."
It's taken 39 years to get me where I am and I wonder where I'll be in another 39.
