Buddhability Short: It's Never Too Late

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Buddhability Shorts is a series where we break down a Buddhist concept or common life challenge we’ve touched on in an interview. Today, we’re talking about life milestones and feeling left behind.

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Episode Mentioned:

How I Beat Burnout

Seeing Beyond My Complaints and Problems

Resources:

Discussions on Youth, pp. 6, 121.

Each Instant Contains Incredible Possibilities

Transcript

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0:00.0	From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is Budability.
0:07.0	The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:20.0	It seems like everyone I know is having babies. A few years ago, it was weddings. But the thing that
0:27.5	really shook me was when my friends started buying homes. That thought had not even entered my mind.
0:35.2	These major life moments seem to happen around me in big waves, and I feel like I'm never part of them.
0:41.3	I'm sure you might be experiencing something similar, especially if you're on social media.
0:47.3	Maybe all your friends are getting accepted into colleges and you're taking a gap year.
0:52.3	Or you're making a career change. You realize that you'd rather work in real
0:56.6	estate than finance. From childhood, we hear about all these important life milestones that will
1:02.4	hit as we age. Graduations, from high school, college, start a career after college and stay in the
1:09.3	field until maybe retire. maybe we'll get a pet
1:13.6	buy a home have a family but when our timeline or milestones start to deviate from our peers it can be
1:21.1	easy to feel like we're falling behind or maybe that something is even wrong with us and before you spiral if you feel like you're off the traditional timeline, you might not be alone.
1:32.8	A recent study by Pew Research shows that people in their 20s today are all hitting milestones,
1:38.6	financial and relational, later in life than earlier generations.
1:43.2	But just because that's true, it probably doesn't make our worries disappear.
1:48.3	Still, we can look to society for many examples of taking a different timeline or facing setbacks.
1:55.0	Oprah, for example, was famously fired from her first TV reporting job at 23.
2:03.8	At 32, almost 10 years later, she was starting her own show. Or of course Steve Jobs, who dropped out of college after the first
2:09.3	semester. And the list goes on and on. On bootability too, we've spoken to countless Buddhists
2:15.6	who have navigated career changes or taken a less
2:18.5	traditional path. Kyle of Miami was feeling burnt out by his job in tech. Although he had loved
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