Slow Down: You're Gonna Miss This
Whenever I catch myself rushing through life, I think about how much I’ll miss these moments in the future. We all have a tendency to try to “fast forward” through the stressful or mundane, but someday in the future, we would give anything to go back and experience it all over again.
Sahil Bloom
Exploring my curiosity and sharing what I learn along the way. Gave up a grand slam on ESPN in 2012 and still waiting for it to land.
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Whenever I catch myself rushing through life, I think about how much I’ll miss these moments in the future.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
How many more times will I go for a walk with my parents?
How many more times will my son crawl all over us in bed?
Slow down—you’re gonna miss this. -
We all have a tendency to try to “fast forward” through the stressful or mundane.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
But someday in the future, we would give anything to go back and experience it all over again. -
I used to think that life was all about the glamorous, incredible moments (the “instagram worthy” moments).
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
I’ve changed my mind.
I now believe that life is about finding joy and beauty in the mundane daily moments that make up most of our time. -
In his beautiful book Four Thousand Weeks, @oliverburkeman talks about a person stuck in traffic.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
He starts to get angry and frustrated, only to realize how much a recently deceased friend would give anything to be stuck in traffic in that moment.
It hit me HARD. -
I recently came across this idea from Sam Harris that there is a “last time” for everything—you just never know when it be.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
It’s easy to let life speed up on you—we’re always looking forward to the next thing.
But when we look forward, we lose sight of the beauty of now. pic.twitter.com/64Z4GS4ZPs -
Seriously, life comes at ya fast! pic.twitter.com/SO4WeaPaoV
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023 -
I find mental “time travel” to be a very useful trick:
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) June 17, 2023
Go back 10 years and realize how amazed your younger self would be at where you are today.
Go forward 50 years and realize how much your older self will long for the challenges you’re currently facing.
Works wonders.