I logged on this evening, determined to write again.
A New Year’s Resolution? Perhaps.
But unlike a resolution (which can connote a very temporary amount of dedication), I am determined to stick by it. With the mantra “Just do it” (and hating myself a little for sounding so 1990′s Nike), I was about to draft a blog entry. But before I could, I spotted the below tidbit on my friend’s Facebook page and found it quite fitting.
Time is made. Not found. If you want to accomplish something, just do it. Don’t put it off for another moment. Even if you fail, at least you tried. Even if you get rejected, at least you know an answer. You’ll never know if things will work out unless you try it and give it a shot.
[ Taken from Edward S. ]
Consider the thought experiment:
“You see the perfect piece of fruit hanging off your tree’s branch – the kind whose mere sight would make you salivate in delight. You watch it grow and nourish it carefully, but never pick it in fear of souring its impression or for concern that once you ate it, it would never return again. But you wait too long, the once glorious piece of fruit becomes too ripe and falls to the ground never to be eaten by anyone. Regardless of your efforts, or lack there of, the fruit is gone – soiled without ever acting.
There after, you move on; its just a stupid fruit after all! You try and grow other fruits and eat them. Yes, they are satisfying, but for some reason you still feel empty. An emptiness spanning from the constant thoughts at the back of your mind of what would that piece that rotted away have tasted like? However, each time you wake up from your coma, you laugh at the stupidity of the thought – its a fruit after all! Then you reach in for the next piece of fruit to eat.
Why is it that we pass up the items that we believe might make us most content due to the fear, opportunity cost, or repercussions of taking the chance? We spend our lives regretting what we do, and console ourselves by saying that hindsight is 20/20. Why is it so difficult for us to take that initial chance, open up, and risk it all rather than regretting a lifetime worth of opportune experiences missed?
Don’t think, just do.”
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