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The 2K11 24/7 CCCXIV: Getting Older, Not Worse

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Deny it all you want, but you're getting older! The face creams, surgery and wardrobe makeovers will only do so much — at the end of the day, time is on a level higher than any of us and will loose its effects on us all.

That's a reality that I recently had to face, anyway — and it all started with a video game.

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Filed under  //   2k11 247   age   lessons   perspective  
Views // Posted December 18, 2011
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The 2K11 24/7 CCLVI: 10,000 Hours

There's a saying about plans best laid that never turn out QUITE as intended rattling in the back of my head right now. All of us are born believing — if even for the briefest of moments — that we have the capacity to do something GREAT. Something AMAZING. That we can make our mark on the world and earn our rightful place in the history books. Nothing will stop us from our pursuit!

But we get older and things get more... complicated. We get compelling yet contradicting advice from everyone in our lives. We get all this stuff that distract us from our goals. We essentially fumble through the darkness without a match, trying to make sense of our lives and everything in them.

However, it can often feel like we're not making any progress — like we're chipping away at the statue ofr our lives bit by bit, but all it looks like right now is one big ol' hunk of marble.

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Views // Posted September 13, 2011
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