#greyedout

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. “Never leave that until tomorrow what you can do today.” This is the man who discovered electricity, you think more of us would listen of what he has to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I have to guess, I’d say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection, and sometimes the fear is just making a decision because what if you are wrong, what if you are making a mistake that you cannot undo. Whatever it is we are afraid of, one thing holds true, that by the time the pain of not doing a thing gets worst than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we are carrying a giant tumor. Like what they always say, the early bird catches the worm. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend that we haven’t been told, we all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents, warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes, we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have sweep today’s possibility onto tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore, until we finally understand from ourselves what Benjamin Franklin 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 never trying.

Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worries like if you get a bike for your birthday or if you get to eat cookies for breakfast, being an adult is totally overrated. I mean seriously, don’t be fooled with all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no-parents-telling-you-what-to-do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, really does sucks, really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and make a living and pay the rent, etc. Kinda makes bikes and cookies good, isn’t? The scariest part of responsibility is when you screw up and you just let it slide up through your fingers. Again, it really sucks. Unfortunately, once you get pass the age of braces and training bra’s, responsibility doesn’t go away. It can’t be avoided. Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences. I mean the shoes, the sex, the no-parents-telling-you-what-to-do, that is pretty damn good.