"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."
//Emily Maguire; Taming the Beast
It was just a few years ago that we were in school together, playing together, growing up together. Now we're strewn across continents, collecting friends and partners that we don't know and have never met and making stilted conversations for the first time. And we are beginning to look different, slowly but surely
And standing where I am, about to plunge into the next phase of my life, I think I can see the impact of choices made in your twenties. That these choices will surely shape you and define you and determine the person you become. That one day, you will stand at that point and look back and be able to judge all that you've done in these eight years before you turn thirty. And the prospects I've seen scare me, just a bit. That people who I knew when I was young are making these same choices each and everyday and are now standing at the point near thirty, looking back and I don't know if they can say with conviction that they really like what they see.
And that just drives home the point for me. That I can spend the next part of my life clutching at withered possibilities or I can start making the choices I need to make. Right here, right now.
"But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope."
//Emily Maguire; Taming the Beast
It was just a few years ago that we were in school together, playing together, growing up together. Now we're strewn across continents, collecting friends and partners that we don't know and have never met and making stilted conversations for the first time. And we are beginning to look different, slowly but surely
And standing where I am, about to plunge into the next phase of my life, I think I can see the impact of choices made in your twenties. That these choices will surely shape you and define you and determine the person you become. That one day, you will stand at that point and look back and be able to judge all that you've done in these eight years before you turn thirty. And the prospects I've seen scare me, just a bit. That people who I knew when I was young are making these same choices each and everyday and are now standing at the point near thirty, looking back and I don't know if they can say with conviction that they really like what they see.
And that just drives home the point for me. That I can spend the next part of my life clutching at withered possibilities or I can start making the choices I need to make. Right here, right now.
