Looking back at decades 3 & 4

 20-years of studying commerce, without intrinsic motivations.

Perhaps the defining privilege of my second vicennium "early adulthood" was the opportunity to work beside people I had very little in common with, in order to appreciate their places in life, and to learn about their ways of life.

By the time I turned my career focus to governance and commerce as a 22-year-old, I had already discarded ( temporarily or permanently ) a number of the common motivations which, I find, people build their lives on. Briefly including :

• - to live a long life
• - to make a difference in the world
• - to acquire power
• - to be unburdened by fiscal expenses
• - to honour past relations
• - to develop new relations
• - to be liked
• - to be celebrated

Now in my third vicennium, I find myself grateful, but somewhat bemused by the fact that the world contains so many differences among its people.