"One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life."
In this life, we are never satisfied. We are 5 years old and we wish to be like our older sister who is five years ahead of us. We are 10 years old and we dread it. So, naturally, we begin planning for 12, and 13, and then 16 years old. We are 16 and we are counting down the days until freedom and college and drinking. And then suddenly, we have hit all of the milestones that we have spent our whole lives waiting to hit. Time has flown by, as we had always wished it would, and then what?
Remember when we were young and had SO much to look forward to? When we are young, every year is a milestone. Scratch that, every day is a milestone. And now that you're twenty, or thirty, or whatever age you are, you would probably do anything in the entire world to go back to when you were 12 and awkward and going through puberty. You would do anything to relearn to ride a bike for the first time, to relive your first kiss, to have no responsibilities. But when you were actually this age, you would have done anything to fast forward your life to a better time, a more fun age. Isn't it sad that you spent your entire young life wishing to be the age that you are in this exact moment?
Isn't it a shame to think that we've always been way ahead of our years? We were five years old and we were fooling around with makeup and playing with our mom's cellphone and playing house with our siblings, pretending to be parents ourselves. Why weren't we doing "normal" five year old things?
We live in the age of the never satisfied. And it's a shame. But, this can be changed. We need to learn to soak up every moment. We need to learn to stop planning for someday -- because that day you're planning for? Yeah, well it will quickly come and it will quickly pass. And then you will begin to plan for another someday, another chapter of your life. And eventually, you will have planned out every someday and you will have written and mapped out your whole entire life. And honestly, that's not much of a life at all. Life is meant to be fun and exciting and spontaneous. Life is not meant to be a perfectly planned story. Stop wishing to fast forward time. Stop living in the past. Live your life. Live it now.
