If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.
- Ivan Turgenev
“We will have kids when we have a house.”
”I’ll go for the better job when I take a course.”
”I’ll take a vacation when I get promoted.”
”I’ll buy the pretty outfit when I lose weight.”
I think we have all heard people speak of their dreams as something dependent of the circumstances surrounding them and, truth be told, we can probably list a few wishes of our own that are stuck in the myre of “I will…when”.
While it’s true that we have responsibilities that need to be filled- bills need to be paid and families need to be tended to- much of our free time is frittered away on trivial pursuits. We fill our days with senseless television shows, numb ourselves to the world with a variety of addictions and focus our time and energy on things that we may need to let go. Rarely do we sit down and reflect on our lives; make the attempt to discover what matters to us, what our dreams may be and how to get on with filling them. Our most valuable resource- our very life- is squandered, while our dreams rot away on the back burner.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
The only thing in life that you can be absolutely sure of is that things will change. The best part of it is that we have the opportunity to be aware of what our choices are and participate in these changes by making conscious choices. Do you remember the golden rule of childhood? He who owns the ball, makes the rules. This is as true today as it was then. Your life belongs to you, how do you want to play it?
