Why Not Now?

Now is as good a time as any to choose a path for your life.

Photo by MJ Blehart

There is a great Chinese proverb that I strive regularly to take to heart.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

I had many different choices for my life to be made 20 years ago. I was not so long out of college and was fresh from my studies of theatre, radio/audio production, and art history. Arguably, that was the time to pursue careers in those fields (and maybe make use of my college degree).

I didn’t. For lots of reasons I didn’t dive into professional theatre, nor travel anywhere I could to get into radio, nor use my minor in art history to work at a museum or go back to school for an education degree of some sort.

I say reasons, but the truth is they were excuses. I had a comfort zone that on the one hand I really wanted out of — on the other hand, I was too comfortable to leave.

For years I bounced job to job, doing things that I was generally good at by not thrilled by. Much boredom, and over the years a degree of regret.

Now, 20 years later, I am working on being who I desire most to be and doing what I believe to be the things I am supposed to do in this world. Maybe…