As I sit here, looking forward, backward and right in front of me at the same time, age 52 tells me something my 20’s never told me. There is time.
Got it Wrong
I remember a period in my 20s where I felt washed up and on the way to nowhere. The future was uncertain. My personal life was in turmoil. I felt like life was passing me by and I would be lucky if I had one or two more chances at anything.
WOW. I was so incorrect. I know it’s wrong to wish backwards, but I truly had no idea, at the time, how many more opportunities would come my way. There were times I settled instead of reaching further or waiting. I don’t know how young folks in their twenties wind up feeling like “this is my last chance at anything”. I certainly recall that feeling all too well.
There are no gaurantees, but if I would have known I wasn’t destined to leave that skinny rock n roll body I had dead in a casket by age 30, perhaps I would have held out a little longer on some things. Maybe I wouldn’t have put so much pressure on myself to make things happen.
Twenty-Something
So my message to the twenty-somethings out there is simple. Don’t settle. If you think you can do better, you can. Eventually, settling will only lead to disappointment. Then, and only then, will you wish you would have understood the sands of time a little better. It seemed like a crazy concept to me at the time. I thought life was closing in on me, when it was only beginning. I read it all wrong.
Never Too Late
On the other side of that coin, let’s remember it’s never too late to truly find your purpose. If I don’t get called home before I’m ready, I assure you, I will make something better for myself on the backside of life. Life’s too precious and too fleeting to close out the last chapters in despair or regret.
Life
The best part of life is living. Living isn’t waiting to die or living your life to die. Life is living. Life is worth living. If you are already long in the tooth, change what you gotta change to ensure you grab a few more smiles on the back side of this existence.
Love to you always my beautiful Friends and Fiends.
Thank you for taking the time to dance in my Cranial Circus.
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