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Time for another thread? "Philosophical treatise" or something along that line? Here's a couple of things that have proven noteworthy to me: "Don't live your life like it's this long '....................................................' because it's only this long '.......' " "You tend to regret the things you don't do, not the things you do." "Nothing worth having comes easy." Love, money, peace of mind. The groundbreaking events that helped me mature my outlook: 1. Around 35 (ish) I was told by my peers on a 2 year management course - while on a residential weekend - it was okay to be me. (Still took me years to do it, but I had the encouragement to let myself 'out' - as it were.) 2. A couple of years later, I learned to be compassionate, an achievement born from a particular relationship after Item 1 started taking effect. 3. While working for someone with absolutely no business sense what-so-ever, not only did I nearly turn his business around, when it finally went to the wall I did make a success out of it. More, I learned that owning a business wasn't beyond me (though hard work) but I didn't need to be an employee any longer than I wanted to be. I have read a witticism somewhere (probably on a birthday card) where: being young is 'learning something new everyday' and being old is 'forgetting more than you learn everyday'. I fear I have reached that stage, but I enjoy learning new things more now, than I ever have. Given the opportunity, (being young enough to be back at school) I would like to 'suck up' every ounce of knowledge I had been offered in my youth. I've never been reluctant to learn, (7 years in total of evening classes should tell that) but I've now a thirst for knowledge unlike any itime before. Regrets: Not making the time to write the 10,000 dissertation (on the second year of a course that was paid for) that would have had me with "MSc" after my name.