Waiting...

The idea of waiting for your life to start is the most absurd thing on the planet. There is almost a mentality that grips people, particularly I feel the academic minded or focused people and that is your life will not start, and therefore you can not possibly be happy or do anything with yourself until you reach that point.

But when you think about it, you will not know what to do once you reach that point. If while you are in elementary school, you are preparing for middle school and then there you are preparing for high school. Once you are in high school, you are preparing to off to college and then in college you prepare yourself for graduate or professional school. And then from there you prepare yourself for a job. And then even then you keep preparing yourself for a better job and then once you have it, what do you do? This is where your life is supposed to start, right? You could not have possibly gotten anything out of what you have done other than preparation for this point and then what? All you have done your entire life is prepare for the next step. Should you prepare now for your death? You spent all of that time preparing for the next step so that your life can start when hello your life has been happening and you have not taken the time to look around and realize it.

The same thing can be said for those that only seek out relationships or a potential spouse and they tell themselves that their lives will not start until they get to that point. If you tell yourself that, whether it is a career, a significant other, purchasing a house, whatever it may be you will not feel like your life has started if you pin it on one specific thing. Because once you reach it, you won't know what else to do with it. Your life won't suddenly start then because it has been happening since you we're born. Stop and realize that every once in a while. Life isn't about preparing yourself for the next stage, it is about experiencing the stage that you are in right now.