Time is the Limited Commodity

There will be more money, but will you always have more time?

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“Right now we have time, but not the money. In ten years we will have that money, but we won’t have the time”.

This is something that a friend had said to me years earlier when I was trying to decide if I should book a European trip with her after graduation.

Now, in this case, my friend was referring to the ten years from now when we would no longer be in our early twenties. The ten years from now future when we could possibly have kids, family obligations, and mounting work responsibilities. In the future when it will be hard or near impossible to just pick up and take off for the summer to go on an adventure. When we have “settled down” and have mortgages, car payments, and maybe three high-energy dogs between the two of us. When we have only two weeks vacation a year and will use it to visit in-laws across the country.
There really was nothing like this beautiful time after graduation when the world is your oyster. You can go anywhere, be anyone. You don’t have to answer to anyone other than yourself. There truly will never be another time in your life like it.
Now granted, hindsight is 20/20 I never realized at the time how precious those moments were and truly