Right Now

"One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now." - Paul Coelho

One day, I will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things I've always wanted. So I'm doing them right now. Instead of letting myself procrastinate my dreams and my goals for myself, I choose to do them right here, right now. I understand I'm in high school and that my time should be filled with studying, doing homework, and completing projects, but amidst all that, I always remind myself that although education is important, so are the things that I want to do in my life. Why should I prolong doing them until I am older and am in college, or possibly even later than that? Because I'll have more time? Because I'll be more experienced? How will I be more experienced if I prolong the experience itself? I don't want to wait. I wake up in the morning and silently review the tasks I've set for myself in that one day: Key Club, TEDx, Pen on Paper, Ride Your Horse, homework, studying, etc. I don't allow myself to do absolutely nothing because that's a waste of the precious time given to me on this world to do whatever I want - whatever makes me whole. When I wake up on the day that Paul Coelho describes, I don't want to think that I never did any of the things I wanted: I want to think that I did all that I could do and that I used that time wisely. Our time on earth (although morbid) is limited, and instead of seeing that as a detriment, I see it as the time for me to do what I want to on this earth.