They say that if you can see yourself with the product in the future then you're already sold on it. If you are ever in need of a salesman's pitch on timing, then this is probably a convincing argument for knowing whether or not the timing is right for you about, well, whatever situation you might be in.
Timing is such a funny thing. If the timing is right for you, then you'll receive it. You'll be given what is right for you to be given at the right time. Nevertheless, it is hardly convenient.
Time is hardly a convenient feature of life.
It's a permanent feature, and we cannot always measure it in human ways.
The phrase, "It will happen when it happens," is something confident people say to themselves to help them sleep at night. But the truth is, no one is really truly confident in timing. Even the adults you grew up thinking had it the most together probably don't have it the most together --they just are able to deal with the way the timing works in certain aspects of our lives better than they did when they were younger.
To tell you the truth, timing scares me. It scares me so much because it is hardly sure. I never truly know when the timing is right for me. If something works out then obviously it was the right timing for me, but sometimes I think that even bad timing is good timing.
If that makes any sense to you.
Bad timing brings out the best of life's lessons for us. And good timing brings out the best in us because it makes the best of circumstances. However, who's to say that all timing isn't great and wonderful and beautiful?
I stress about timing to the max. I stress good and bad timing and everything in-between. I stress out about the timing of the people around me, the relationships around me, and the work I have ahead of me. Will I ever be really ready to face what is in front of me?
The truth is: No. Probably not. Probably never.
Nevertheless, we learn from timing. We gain experience from this. We gain skills, strength, and courage to tackle the paths ahead of us.
There's a quote that I grew up with that was something like, "God will never give you more than you can handle," but I almost beg to differ. If you are given more than you can handle then you've got to rely on the faith of continuing forward; the faith of some sort of light at the end of the tunnel.
In other words, will you ever really know if the timing is right for you? I think so.
I think that you'll know in your heart if your timing is right, or the job's timing is right, or the person's timing is right.
No, timing is almost never convenient, but it has a funny way of working out like that. It isn't always planned, and sometimes timing is shorter than you expected he'd be, or richer in love than you wanted, or maybe she breaks your heart like you never thought she would. Sometimes it isn't the job you anticipated, and occasionally it's a little scarier and larger than life than you expected it to be.
But if it's worth anything at all: it's right.
