Most mornings I listen to my iPod as I walk to work. Occasionally, certain songs come on that end up being pretty thought provoking. A section from a song by who I consider to be the greatest band of all time, Pink Floyd, proved to be so earlier today.
“You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you,
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”
If you aren't familiar with the song, it's Time off of Dark Side of the Moon. The song is mostly about how people wait for life to happen and that time passes quickly and people miss out. Which leads me to my thought...
I don’t like it when people use the phrase “The Real World”. I guess most people consider “The Real World” to be when you either reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of everything that has been your life so far. It promotes the idea that life starts at a certain point in the future and creates a feeling that childhood and adolescence and everything before that point are about preparing for a life that’s going to start later. If you wait for “The Real World” to come, there’s a good chance you’re going to miss it and probably be pretty unhappy with yourself. I think life is happening all the time and at any point you can grab the reins and start guiding your own destiny.
Every moment of your life has a direct impact on the things that will happen to you in both the immediate and distant future. Some moments, if not most, are small and inconsequential. There are also of course moments and decisions in everyone’s lives that potentially determine the course they will take. I try not to obsess over decisions I have made, whether they be good or bad at the time. Inevitably, they have led me to where I am in this exact moment right now, which I’m quite pleased with.
Life is a delicate balance between examining the past, taking the present moment-by-moment, and planning ahead but I think the right combination is a formula for success, and more importantly, contentment.
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