On Time, and Knowing When to End
- Maritza Messer
- Apr 10
- 1 min read
Today I read two articles by authors I follow regularly, both reflecting on quality of life.
The first one shared a simple but powerful idea: don’t wait until the end of your work life to do what truly fulfills you. Instead, as you move through your working years, you should fill your life with small activities you enjoy, even alongside your daily responsibilities. It’s not about escaping work, but about giving meaning to your days.
The second article spoke about something just as important: knowing when to stop. Preparing your exit, setting a date, and understanding that this moment is not an ending, but the beginning of a new stage, one where you can focus on what you love, with intention and joy.
It talked about pausing to think. To observe. To have time… not to waste it, but to spend it with intention: “With the same pleasure with which you wear out those shoes that are so comfortable.”
These are two different reflections, yet they meet at the same point: that important stage of life we work so hard to reach. And yet, while we prepare for it, we must also prepare ourselves emotionally.
Because life doesn’t begin when we stop working. Life is happening now.
And it is in this “in-between” where it truly matters to surround ourselves with what fulfills us: moments, people, small passions, and necessary pauses.
In the end, we don’t take with us the shoes or clothes … we take the experience of what we lived.
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