Sahil Bloom

And when I went out for this drink with this friend and he asked about that, I said, you know, I'm not seeing my parents often.

And he asked, how old are they?

And I said, mid-60s.

He asked how often I saw them.

I said, about once a year.

And he just looked at me and said, OK, so you're going to see your parents 15 more times before they die.

And look, we were living in California.

We'd built a whole life there.

I'd bought a house.

I had this great job.

All of my priorities were so focused on money and financial success and status being the pathway to me feeling like I had lived a good life, success, wealth, etc.

And in that moment, it sort of jammed a wrench in the wheel of that bike to just recognize that my entire definition of success or of wealth

had been incomplete.

I was really focusing on the one thing at the expense of everything else rather than in conjunction with everything else.

Yeah, we moved, you know, like within 45 days, we...

We sold our house in California.

I left my job and we moved 3,000 miles across the country to live closer, driving distance from both sets of parents.

And the one thing I would just say about that is what it created and instilled in us was this recognition of our own agency in our lives, to recognize that we were capable of building our life around the things that we really cared about, the priorities that we really had.

Because

There are really two types of priorities in life.