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~ If tomorrow never comes ~

Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 05:40PM

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success.

“Never leave that till tomorrow”, he said, “Which you could do today.”
 
This is the man who discovered electricity.
 
You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say.
 
I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it had a lot to do with fear.
 
Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection.
 
Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong?
 
What if you make a mistake you can’t undo?
 
Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true: that by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it.
 
It can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor.
 
And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.
 
“The early bird catches the worm”; “A stitch in time saves nine”; “He who hesitates is lost”.
 
We can't pretend we haven't been told.
 
We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'.
 
Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves.
 
We have to make our own mistakes.
 
We have to learn our own lessons.
 
We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant.
 
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping.
 
And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.

11 Comments / add your comment?

wwwDOTgawartDOTde says:
What goes on "the" hell in this brain of this lady
;)))
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
~ Bibi ~ replies:
am I thinking out loud?? ;-)))
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
wwwDOTgawartDOTde says:
private is this ok but not good for business or public
hehehehe
oh dear
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
~ Bibi ~ replies:
true ... ok so we keep this amongst ourselves :-)))
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
wwwDOTgawartDOTde replies:
pst pst
keep the secrets

only if you can this
peoples think you interessting
hahahaha
pst pst
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
JoJo says:
And I thought it was this by your title...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJnVSKTkcE
Basically it says the same thing:)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
~ Bibi ~ replies:
yep ... and do you remember the original by Garth Brooks? Along with the song THE DANCE ... :-)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
JoJo replies:
Oh yes...I was trying to find that one on youtube. I only knew of that one. When I couldn't find a decent recording, I chose this. I absolutely love the way Garth does it:)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
Evelyne Colepro says:
You forget that for some people, they cannot do all they want the same day...so they have to let it go until the next day!...and may be another day.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
~ Bibi ~ replies:
... yes, and then they just simply 'forget' :-))))
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
Evelyne Colepro replies:
Tha,t how life goes... sad
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

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