“I will be chasing the starlight until the end of my life I don’t know if it’s worth it anymore.”
A song that will be played at my wedding, if I ever marry.
For many years, I was very self conscious about my age. As a kid and a teenager, I felt like I was ahead of everyone, but younger than most people in my classes. Lately, I have been feeling like I am older than most people I know - older in age, more experienced - but not old. Someone says that there’s a time for everything - as much as I believe this is true, I also think that people take it a little too literally and a little too far. I feel like time limits and timing milestones are “noise” in life and that we should get rid of some of those timelines imposed on us by popular culture, and by ourselves.
In a relationship, I often hear my friends say “We’ve seen each other for 2 weeks, so we should do this and that.” Or, “It’s our three month anniversary, so we should be at this stage.” Outside of relationships, the most common thing you hear is; “I am too old to do this.” For me, this is just noise. Why impose limits on ourselves? Because, don’t be fooled, these are all limits and barriers okay. The third date barrier, the three months barrier, the two day barrier before you call, the age barrier that says it’s too late to start a new activity, why not move forward with your guts? You want to call someone, well then CALL. You want to go to a picnic or meet up with friends with someone you met three days ago, then do it! You want to start learning how to skate? What’s holding you back? Tomorrow’s another day and we could all be shaken up by a massive earthquake as far as I know.
Bottom line is, time is what it is. It is only moving forward. You can’t stop it, or “make” it, and there are only 24 hours a day. You just need to “take” it as it goes by and make the most out of it.
