There Is Time...

...and there isn't.

There is a real, albeit very small, chance that you will die tomorrow. That would suck. Mostly for the people who are not dead, of course. They will have to deal with all the embarrassing passwords you use and find a way to get rid of your non-matching socks. You will be blissfully ignorant when you are dead. Come to think of it, being dead, really is not your problem at all, but I digress.

Aside from being dead, there is also a real and much larger chance that you have more time than you think you do whenever you tell yourself that "it's too late for that stuff". "I am too old" is everyone's favourite excuse from the ripe old age of five. Age has nothing to do with it. It doesn't factor into my fascination with glittery stationery and it certainly doesn't keep me from anything I REALLY want.

Instead of talking yourself out of your life (literally and metaphorically, I don't know that sinking into the couch is an actual life...) just start something and keep it up for a few years.

Something will come of it.

I have never once done anything for a long time with nothing coming of it. Good things and bad things, of course. But still, the stuff you keep doing has a way of paying off in your life.

Sometimes, the things that you stick to seem unlikely at the time. Or the people you meet don't look like candidates for the "longest friendship award". Looking at my friends today, I am not sure I would have pegged half of them as "keepers" when I met them. In turn, some people I thought would be my friends forever are not a part of my life anymore.

Things come and go and often, the results are different from what you imagine. Kind of like...you get what you dreamed of, but in a different colour.

It's extremely unlikely that your life is not going to change drastically over the next two decades. I mean just look at me, a lot has changed since I was fourteen! So, if it is going to change anyway, you may as well nudge the change into a direction that you actually enjoy.

You still have time. You just need to start.