Remember the sticker collection you had when you were a child and waited for the perfect opportunity to use? Did you ever get to use it? What about the candle that was gifted to you by a friend that you hesitate to light, in fear of wasting it on a random day? Did you ever get to light it? What about the shirt that you bought and stored in your closet waiting for the perfect day to put it on? Did you ever get to wear it?

The perfect moment does not exist, and you are wasting your life waiting for it.

We constantly find ourselves wondering about the future, thinking about the things that we hope to do someday if we had more money, or if we had more friends, but why wait for that moment when it’s not guaranteed?

Tomorrow is not promised, so the best time to do something that you will enjoy is today.

Our brains are programmed to think of the future and anticipate our plans. While that is important in order for us to better achieve our goals, how much are we enjoying the journey that we are on to get to those goals?

We fail to realize that the perfectly good moments that we seek to make memories and enjoy life in are fleeting between our fingers as we overlook them, assuming that other more special moments are yet to come.

Based on my own experiences, I used to feel like I could not fully embrace and appreciate the fall season due to its association with school and academic stress. I often told myself that once I graduate, I will enjoy it more.

I soon realized that while I may no longer be occupied by the stress of school in the future, I will be occupied with different types of stress that come with life. So, I might as well appreciate it now amid the chaos of school because someday I will not be a college student with my only concern being school.

If you hesitate to start a project today in fear of failure hence you wait to start it in the future. A few years from now when that perfect moment never came, will you regret starting today despite the outcome or regret not starting at all and never knowing your fullest potential. The next time you find yourself thinking about pursuing your dream sometime in the future, think of how much progress you’d make by then if you had just started today.

As the saying goes, yesterday was history, tomorrow is mystery and today is a gift; that is why it’s called present. So, use that sticker, light that candle and wear that shirt because the only right time is right now.

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