Mark Twain once said, “Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.” In
an effort to not have that happen in my life, I have started this blog. I am
not a big believer in bucket lists, New Year resolutions, or dwelling on past
regrets. Why? Well, first I love spontaneity and living for today. Don’t get me wrong, I have goals
and aspirations and set things I have to do each day, but when it comes to knowing
what I am going to do each minute of everyday…I prefer to be surprised.
Second,
for some reason, planning out every aspect of my life resembles things like eating
stuffing (I hate stuffing), getting a physical, or getting anywhere close to a
cat (I also don’t like cats).
The third and possibly most important reason is: why wait
for a new year, new career, old age, or any distant time frame to make the
changes you want to make? No, I can’t go to Russia right now, but I can
research, make a plan, and set a possible time I could go. If that doesn't work, I just choose something else on my long list of “someday I’m going to do this”
items.
I often wonder how many times a week we use the words someday,
sometime, someone, or something; and in what context we use these words. Is it
to say someday I’ll go to that place, sometime I’ll try that food, or is there
someone you should have gotten to know. Whatever the reason we choose to use
the word someday, this blog is to help me, and hopefully you, to realize that
someday can be: today I will talk to that person, this week I will try that
food, or this year I am going to that place.
So this week I am going to find a place to learn martial
arts, wake up early enough to take all the back-roads from St. George to Cedar
City, UT, and help my professor Ellen find a cheap way to scuba dive in Costa
Rica. What are you going to do this week? Let’s Embrace Someday!
