Lessons,

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. "Never leave that 'till tomorrow. he said which you could do today this is the man who discovered electricity. you'd think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd say it had a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection. sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong. what if you make a mistake you can't undo. whatever it is we're afraid of one thing holds true. Than by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it. It can feel like we're carring around a giant tumor, And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.

He who hasitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philisophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time. heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still, sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. we have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Frankin meant. that knowing is better than wondering, That waking is better than sleeping. And that even biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.