👇🌹 "A friend once told me: ‘Norman, you have to stop and smell the roses.’ And he was right. I’ve lived through so much in the past few years that sometimes I feel like I haven’t enjoyed it enough."
"I went from sleeping in a truck that wasn’t even mine to having a star on the Walk of Fame. From having no money to owning restaurants, a best-selling book, and even a whisky on the way. The crazy thing is that when you’re caught up in a thousand projects, you forget to pause and realize where you came from.
My dad always said: ‘If money can solve your problem, then it’s not a real problem.’ Real problems are losing a leg or having cancer. I’ve been broke, I’ve been homeless… and I survived. So I try to remind myself that what’s important is to appreciate what I do have.
If I could change one thing today, it would be that: to slow down more often, look around me, and tell myself: ‘You achieved this, enjoy it.’"
🧠Norman Reedus on valuing the present and not forgetting where you come from.