We grow up believing we have all the time in the world, however it is only an illusion once we have reach our Golden Years. Our time should be chosen wisely as we listen to those of old in wisdom. Time slips away too quickly and as we try to hurry and get to those milestones, we lose sight on what is important in our youth.

Spend more time away from the devices, and more time with friends and family. Find a buddy (s) that has the same interest outdoors, sports, hobbies, and work. While, my kids and I were growing up, we didn’t have the devices as young people do today. Instead, we went hunting, fishing, hiking, dragged main street on the weekends, went skating, and spent most of our time outdoors; when not in the classroom or working. We learned how to utilize our time through different ways and were fun.

Friendships were (and still are) valuable, and were not made online through social media. Social media was not around in those days, and there was close-up and personal introductions through other friends, on the job, sometimes in the stores, and in the classrooms. Weekends were the highlight of the week as friends hung out in a business parking lot, load a car up in the front, back seat, and trunk to see a movie at the drive-in theater, or hung out at the skating rink and the skate-a-thons.

Continually build a relationship with your parents and grandparents. We may not have them around the rest of our or their life, and no one knows what can happen in the future. They have been given to us and us to them as a gift and are so precious. Each can glean from one to another, and grow in the process of life. One day, when we look back over our life and what we hold dear will be gone, and all we will have is memories of the past in our older years. So, enjoy and build as much as you can. Relationships are an asset.

The youthful years can, and usually does determine the forecast of the ‘Golden Years’. Life does not come easily, and there is a price to each and every choice we make.