We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time. "Never leave that 'til tomorrow, which you can do today." I don't know why i put things off so much, but if I had to guess i'd say its just mainly FEAR. Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection. Sometimes just the fear of making a decision. Because... What if you're wrong? What if you make a mistake you can't undo?
Still, sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what they all meant. That knowing is better than wondering. That waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake, beats the hell out of not trying
