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Deep Realizations That Are Currently Hitting Me Like Bricks in the Face

My life is (almost) half away over

Ayodeji Awosika
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6 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Time speeds up a little bit every year you’re alive.

When you’re young, time moves slowly. You feel invincible. Like you’re going to live forever.

Then you become an adult. As a young adult, things move at a steady pace and you haven’t yet experienced what it’s like to let life pass you by.

Then you hit adult adult mode. That’s where I’m at.

I’m 34 years old. I’m starting down the barrel at 40. People in their 30s like to think they’re young. But the average life expectancy is 78. So, at 39, your life is literally halfway over.

This phase of my life has caused me to be more reflective.

Don’t get me wrong…

My life turned out pretty damn well.

But I do think about the mistakes I made in the past, things I wish I could’ve done differently, and most importantly, how much time I wasted not doing what I knew in my bones I wanted to do.

So my priorities as I speed into the curves of middle age are:

  • Doing whatever the hell I want without apologizing for any of it.
  • Spending as little time as…

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