It’s Never Too Late — or Too Early — to Be Whoever You Want to Be
The Curation Series: “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ― Earl Nightingale
How Old Are You?
Who cares?
It may be a platitude, but from First Principles thinking, age is literally just rotations of the Earth around the sun.
What if tomorrow you found out you were in fact 5 years younger or 5 years older than you thought you were? Would your mentality be different even though nothing had in fact changed?
How many birthdays have you felt old only to think back 10 years later and realize how young you were?
I can’t count the amount of times I’ve heard people say to be in your 30s means you’re an old man, and only a few days later have someone in their 40s tell me how much they would have done in their 30s if they only allowed themselves to.
Be Who You Want to Be Now
As this letter in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button makes clear and poetic, the time is passing, so use it doing something you want.
For every excuse you have that you can’t do something at your age, you’ll find someone — usually a lot of people — who did it at a much older or much younger age.
Don’t hold yourself back because of a concept — especially one design by society.
Go out there — wherever “there” is — and be who it is you wish to be. Not later. Now.
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This article is Day 28 of the 30-Day Fishbowl Series
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