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If Not Now, When?
If not now, when will you decide it’s time to experience life for all it has to offer?
We all get one shot at this specific life experience.
Whether active or passive, we experience life every single day. That’s comprised of,
- Everything that you think, do, intend, and feel.
- All that happens to you — inside or outside your control — is part of your life experience.
- The people, places, and things you interact with are elements of your life experience.
Intentional or unintentional, passive or active — life happens. And you get one shot in the body you live within over the course of (hopefully) around 80 years.
Most people who were born and raised in the United States have certain common experiences. For the first 4 or so years of our lives, we just existed. EVERYTHING was new, shiny, and full of wonder. Possibility and potential were all we knew. Each new game, person, place, and thing we encountered was a first and positively represented the unknown.
Then we started school. Now, for the next 13 or so years, we had structure. Formal lessons, new experiences, people, places, things, etc. But with that came expectations of others, interactions we did not choose, as well as rigid, set…
