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[quote=Anonymous]My DH said something (I think it was a quote, not his original thought, but who knows)...it was something like: People have two lives--the second begins wheb you realize you have only one. I think that is so true. When you really realize you will not live forever, it does change your outlook. For me, it helped me not give a crap about the rat race (and for women, a lot of the rat race is trying to hold on to youth and to look younger as opposed to embracing how one looks when one is older--being ok with looking attractively older!) Anyways, I think there can be a lot of relaxing about a variety of things that in the end, don't really matter. I say "no" to things that I don't really want to do, and don't put up with high-maintenance friends any more. Life is too short. There's a short paperback book called "Essentialism" that someone recommended to me; it helped me learn how to say "no" to all that social crap that can eat up a lot of time.[/quote]
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