Monday, January 28, 2008

dear today.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: "Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."





We always think tomorrow's another chance, a brand new shot at life. Opportunity to make up for lost time, or prospect that has potential to put the past in the past and simply live on. Face it, preparement is the anchor that ends up betraying us and sinking us at the final moment. We prepare our whole lives ... for life. And then when life has had the best of us, our clock sounds, our time's up, death overcomes life.

All that preparing wasn't worth anything if we never got the chance to live. To live what we had prepared. So answer me this: Why prepare? If in the long run, 'getting ready' is gonna waste our lives and steal our opportunity of actually breathing life, why do it?

Just gotta remember to live before you prepare. Save 'getting ready' for after you have lived, and by that time, you're past needing to.

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