life on reverse
Here’s a new perspective: Live backwards. I think it’s funky.
Like old folks, we may start out at that stage where we’d need a lot of help and a lot of love from people. Like our grandparents who have gone through a lot in life already, we’d be very appreciative of the people around us and the world in turn would be loving us right back.
After that stage, we move on to search for stability. In this stage we’d be very serious, very dedicated, very committed because our safety needs just have to be satisfied. It’s okay to be sleepless for a few years. We just need to secure a solid life insurance, great health benefits, and a fat savings account.
Now that we have achieved such stability, we may move on and work on establishing a name for ourselves. It would be nice to have a successful career. It’s okay to enjoy working. But we are fully aware that we do not need to work our ends off, we already got plenty of money. It wouldn’t hurt to buy a new house and a new car, though.
Now that we have earned our house and car, it’s time to party and realize that there are interesting species of the opposite sex. We won’t have a problem dating, or getting serious, or getting married even. We already got our own house, car, and human inventions that make life very comfortable. Plus, we’re already wise and mature people. We already know ourselves and we know how to live independently. No need to ask for space to find oneself.
The relationships flourish because on top of being successful, we don’t forget to have fun. And each day as we live backward, we find new ways to enjoy life and we party harder and harder every day. No arguments about money management, no worries about house or car loans, no conflicts about you spending too much time at work trying to earn more out of OT. Our basic priority is enjoying the relationship and having fun, like teenagers do. We can start sleeping a bit more this time.
Now moving further backward, we seem to have covered everything. And we’ll just spend the rest of our energy playing, just like kids do. No time for worries. We just have to sleep long hours and wake up to play. We need to play and make sure we live a fun life.
I just don’t like living it the other way around: the older I get, the less energy and time I’ll have left for the people and things that I value the most. The less fun life becomes. The more wrinkles I end up with. The more conflicts I encounter. The more I allow stagnation and frustration to seep in. The less sleep I get. I’ll sleep more tonight, dream more tonight, and tomorrow I will play.
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