Carpe Diem

We mutter this often enough, every time something unexpected happens to rub the prospect of mortality in our faces.  But how often do we actually take heed and make that change?  To prioritise what's really important to the top of the list in our lives, to grab every opportunity when the doorbell rings?

Well, this year, a little chat with friends, and a little reflection on how I'd never gotten round to doing just a very small task when I had 365 days to get around to it, is pushing me to do this:  This year, I shall make that Nike motto mine - "Just do it".

I wouldn't go so far as to say "Impossible is nothing", but surely lots of things are possible, albeit with differing degrees of difficulty in achieving them. Very often, the hardest part is getting off your butt and starting it.  So this year, I'm going to remind myself, every time that Inner Queen Bitch of Procrastination rears her ugly head, that time and tide waits for no man (or woman).  If I don't get around to doing it when opportunity knocks or when there is a possibility of getting it done now, I will lose not only precious time, but maybe even the only opportunity of ever getting it done.

Just do it.  Just get off my butt and make a move on it.  Doesn't even matter if I should give up halfway if I lose interest.  At the very least, I would have done SOMETHING about something that piques my interest enough to put it down on my bucket list.

I've finally come to the realisation that I've arrived at the position I've hoped and worked a long time for.  That being the case, let's not put off what I had promised myself back then, when I first made that resolution to get here.  Even though I haven't quite settled on the "how", I think I should just get started, and work out the kinks along the way.  It doesn't have to be the perfect storm conditions before we embark on that journey.  We just have to get out of the house and wing it on the way.

Carpe diem.