Okay, so I saw this picture on Facebook the other day and it has really made me consider what I have done with my life so far. If this is correct information, I would have been one when this movie was released so I am starting to see how fast time is moving.
Life doesn't wait for anyone. This is something we hear in different forms from different people at different times in our lives. Normally we hear this from those who are at more advanced stages in their life because these mature people have seen for themselves that his saying is absolutely true. It is interesting to look back on your life from time to time and see what you have accomplished or missed out on.
Time will always continue on and there is no way that we can make it slow down. Yes, if we had a time machine, time would be at our disposal but I don't think that this will be available to the public anytime soon. Seeing that we are unable to go back to fix things that we regret in our life, how are we to make it with the blotches that might be staining our character? How do we really "move on" from the past and become the "person we are meant to be"?
These questions have always bothered me and made me wonder why they are even asked in the first place. Yes, I will admit that I have groaned and moaned about my life from time to time and expressed my frustrations about why things happen the way that they do but I don't think that i am too unlike anyone else. The truth is that we are, in a sense, all the same. One can have that which they determine valuable in another if they will only work for it and yet we always are held back by something: ourselves.
We are our own worst enemy. Yeah, that quote is true too. We pick and pick again at the things that we really have control over that we see as sub-par and tend to obsess over those things that we have absolutely no control over. Why do we do it? Because we are our own worst enemy. The hardest person to ever prove something to in our lives is not the person on the outside looking in but the person who is on the inside looking out. Every morning, our reflection stares back at us. While we would like to change this and that about our body type, hair or facial features, we most often than not bash ourselves even though we haven't even made an attempt to change.
What holds us back from becoming who we really want to be? The fear of the crowd's opinion? The ominous thought of never being good enough to accomplish that which we endeavor to do whether it be love, a career or a hobby? Our answers may vary from a small change to a large scale but one thing is the same across the board. We don't have the faith in ourselves that things will ever become the reality that we perceive in our heads. We don't allow ourselves to search for the dream that we have in our hearts. This is what truly holds each of us back from being that which we are "meant to be".
In my mind, these are the reasons who time doesn't wait for anyone or why life waits for nobody. We spend so much time wishing for that which is at our fingertips. We are just afraid to reach out and grab it. We fear the unknown because we do not believe that we are able to become the person that we truly can be. Is all lost? No. Not yet. We all still have a choice whether to continue on with that which we have always done and put off what we desire until tomorrow or the day after or we can unchain ourselves from doubt and self pity, spread our wings and soar towards that future which we all yearn for.
Soar eagles, soar. Look back to learn, not to dwell. Look forward to progress, not just wish.
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