No matter what age you are, society will always have something telling you that it’s too late to get a certain thing started. School, better spending and eating habits, romance, so many other things.
Then you have the stories of people getting those degrees in the forties, starting a world famous podcast in their fifties, writing that book in their 60s, and so on.
Some of those stories are circumstantial as to why it happened that way, one common theme I’ve always seen is that some people paused or stopped chasing their dreams because they got in their own way.
Doing that can often be in the form of voices of doubters and critics who catch wind of so much as what you want to do for yourself, and even for others outside of them. It’s not far off from the type of people I discussed in my last entry.
Whether it’s because of distance by logistics, or the more grim reason of mortality, we owe it to ourselves to not let those stinging words do that much longer. It takes time to reprogram yourself from those habits, and when you do, it’s okay to grieve the time lost giving into them.
But however you can, let whatever energy remains get you ready to make up for that lost time.
Don’t rush it. Don’t Force it. The people truly on your side won’t do either of those on you.
Reclaim your time. Your future self will thank you.
D.F.
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