If Not Now, When?
I have had lots of ideas for posts lately, but never found the motivation to actually sit down and write them out. That seems to be the case a lot--the thread of an idea that I have no time or interest in unraveling--but today I am sitting down to write out some of my thoughts. If not now--when? That has been a recurring thought for me lately. If not now...when? For so many years, there was something just a few years away--high school graduation. College. College graduation. My first job. My stint as an unemployed writer. My new job. Every few years, for years, there has been something new to anticipate, but for the first time--possibly ever--there is nothing looming. No big change, no excitement as I start school or quit a job to try something different, and I can't help but wonder, is this it? Occasionally I'll joke about moving to Hawaii or trying something new, but never quite seem to muster the courage to do it. But there is a different kind of courage in living i...