This morning I was reading my Feedly feeds and checking out the news headlines and saw a post Ignore Those Posts of What You Should Have Done By Age 30 and they referred to this gem of a tweet which melted the tweet sphere.

As you know I’m not on Twitter now, so that’s about as much as I saw on the link without Twitter asking me to sign up to see more.

Really? Do I want to see more of Steve of Millionaire Habits?

If I surrounded myself with a group of friends that spoke business and money, I would have taken one of my knitting needles and rammed it into my eye out of sheer boredom but also as a lesson to me never to stoop so low and be with people who view life as an opportunity to game a system or trample on others for their gain.

I mean, even when people speak about those two topics AT WORK, I think the same way.

Fucking hell.

Are we THAT bereft of other topics, more meaningful, relevant and that help us to understand each other and ourselves?

Some of my best moments in my life was hanging around with friends laughing, talking crap, doing some things or doing nothing at all.

The best moments in my life were around the dinner table talking everything we weren’t meant to talk about: religion, politics, sex and things we were: music, art, movies, people, travels, life, stories.

The moments travelling with friends to places far and wide around the world; having laughs and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations with the locals.

The spontaneous moments where we all just decided on a whim to go somewhere, do something for the hell of it.

The moments where we all felt alive but also small at the same time: such as watching the sunset in Santorini; scaling a volcano in Indonesia, seeing the sun rise after a trek up a mountain….

Or the other moments where we all were going through some sadness or loss together too.

By age 53, my lesson is that if you haven’t understood that there’s more to life than business and money, you’re living an empty life. And you’re someone I don’t want in my life.