You mentioned ” There is much I still want to accomplish, but I no longer feel the same urgency and inadequacy I felt in my teens and twenties and I wonder if I am not losing my ambition, drive and edge.”

When I read it, I felt an instant connect with the statement. I’ve been going through this phase ever since my daughter was born. Seeing your child grow takes up so much of the center stage that you really want to push everything else on the back burner.

But I am sure this will be a passing phase (for me in particular) and the drive to create something and make a difference will come back and it’ll be ever more stronger.

Best wishes,

Vijay

First, at roughly the same age (35), I started to feel the same acceleration of time along with a true feeling of being part of the chain of life events. I feel connected to early sapiens, to the history of humanity, and its struggle on earth. I agree with you, I am even more lucky to live in this day of technological intercommunications, and immense knowledge opportunities; it provides me a sense of optimism for future generations, despite the issues that we all know of.

Secondly, I felt that I am a humble part of life in the immense universe. The intellectual knowledge of the universe — thanks in part to the course I took in Montreal: Introduction à l’ astrophysique par Hubert Reeves — was becoming an experience in itself, emotional and connected with deeper intelligence. Deeper intelligence was found pushing my own limits, as well as acknowledging them.

The acceleration of time has not stopped. Every birthday makes it more relevant just like it makes more real the consciousness of my being interconnected with the universe. This universal connection has a spiritual meaning, spiritual in the sense that, as we we search for our inner self and the true meaning of life, I have found meaning in time, and through time. As you wrote: the passage of time has taught me to cherish the present. It is not a buzz word “enjoy life before you are dead”, but an understanding of our limits, our mortal limit, as well as our physical limits.

Although you do not experience physical limits, I have through mine, understood the extreme value of cherishing the loves ones, and cherish them now. Love matters, matter matters and, thus, spirituality matters, in body and soul. Love is to give: time, attention, trust, understanding ; give your best, always give and loves comes as a true blessing.

Time is the obstacle. How much time can you give? The passage of time takes away bits of our potential, however, we have the power to transform the acceleration of time, into an acceleration of the universe, as well as our own universe. I have learned that our universe is in expansion, just like mine. I am in expansion, I am here to open my minds to new worlds that I have envisioned superficially at a younger age, and that I explore deeper, now later in time, later in life. I plan to do so, more. Then, will come another consciousness, the one to accept death, the passage of age is ultimately meant for that.

Joyeux anniversaire à toi.

Best from Berlin

Jan