Understand Where YOU are in the Life Cycle

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·Nov 8, 2024

There's a life cycle of an individual, so I want to just touch on that for a bit. To me, the life cycle of a typical individual looks like this:

In the first phase, you learn, and you're dependent on others who guide you, most importantly your parents and teachers.

In the second, you work, and you work with others, and you try to make others who become dependent on you successful. This is the phase when work-life challenges become the greatest because you want to be successful at work and successful in taking care of your family. This is the phase that most of you are in.

Then there is the third and final phase when you are free to live in peace and free to eventually die in peace, ideally knowing that you did your best to contribute to the evolution process that started an eternity before and that will go on way beyond you.

In this phase of life, you are free. You are free of your obligations because you are beyond working to be successful, and you're free of your family obligations because your children have become independent adults and your parents have passed away.

I'm in this phase, and I found that it is natural and rewarding to pass along what I've learned to in symbiotic relationships with those who want to learn.

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