The future is now.
Do you see how it works?
It just keeps coming at you. You can't stop it. You can't pause it while you sleepwalk through your life, or while you build a career you're not sure you wanted in the first place. It won't wait for you to get your act together.
If you want to live a life of balance and harmony, you can't continue to go through your days blindly without an understanding of why you are the way you are - and why you do what it is you do day-in and day-out.
It's time to begin your life - It's time to be direct with yourself...,
- Are you lazy?
- Are you afraid?
- Are you angry?
- Do you kack knowledge?
- Do you lack experience in life?
Realize it..., get over it, change it and begin to live life today.
Life IS like a fast moving train. If you've spent time in Japan, you'll probably be familiar with the Shinkansen - Japan's Bullet Train. They don't call it the bullet train for nothing either - it moves extremely fast. You can sit on a bench at the station and watch it blast by you and it's just a blur of white and blue.
Life is like that. It moves fast. If you don't participate fully, it just goes by you. You can complain all you want about missing out - but it's really just your fault.
If you have kids, then you'll usually really start to notice the passage of time even more distinctly. Each day, month and year brings change and development at an incredibly fast pace. I see my kids throughout the day, every day and I still notice the small daily changes. Children are perfect examples of how much change and development can happen in short periods of time.
Have you noticed that some people can accomplish amazing things in seemingly short periods of time -- and then move on to accomplish more -- and more again? Do you seem to be spinning your wheels for years at a time? Same job, same routine, same everything -- except for that older version of yourself you see in the mirror?
This idea of choosing to live your life sometime in the future is like always sitting along the tracks - watch that Bullet Train scream by you. If only you had chosen to board it, you'd have made the choice to participate in your own existence and move toward your destination.
Stephen Rinaldi, M.MT.
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