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One day you are going to sit on And now as I look at myself and wretched nowhere. Certainly, it
the edge of the bed and get fear dive inordinately deep into my is great to look forward to things
-stricken at the realization that thoughts, I feel as though I am in life, but if you spend your
your feet are no longer short still the same size even when I weeks waiting for the weekends
and can finally brush against the grew taller, and that I am still to come by, your school months
floor. One day your father will the same person even when I waiting for summer vacations,
tell you he expects straight A’s try to change to better myself your school years waiting to
from you without finding it nec- every day. I guess I have been graduate, your college years
essary to teach you every word entirely wrong every year during waiting to get a job, and your
you need to commit to my birthday parties when I working years waiting to retire,
knowledge and memory for your would think that maybe, just know that you are wasting a
exams. maybe, this year I would not lifetime on days that will be for-
hear the saying, “but you’re still gotten and unappreciated.
We were disconcertingly oblivi- too young”. I am certainly going
ous at how these realizations to consider myself too young The question still resonates non
are more oddly frightening than even when I have exceeded the -stop: “when am I ever going to
they are satisfying. It is never age of eighty, with white thin- get out of the womb and experi-
good to know the impossibility ning hair and wrinkled skin. The ence real life?” Reality lies here:
of experiencing such harmless truth is nobody will ever stop you only do that once in a life-
days ever again. being too young. time. Currently, you are not pre-
paring yourself for life, but you
The day such startling realiza- What bothers me here, you see, already are alive, and the time
tions began to strike me was in is the idea that we have been you start to deal with real life,
eighth grade, when I looked taught to think of this saying as and experience being alive,
down on my blue frock, my a bad thing, and to use it with starts from the day you are born
higher-grade uniform, and felt bad intentions, and feel inferior onward, and continues through
absolutely no different. I started when somebody uses it against childhood, teenage years, adult-
to recall the times I was waiting us, when it should rather be hood and ends at death. And
to get rid of my lower-grade uni- about encouraging people to make sure that, after your
form and finally replace my gray dare to live, to try, to fail, to death, your words and ideas
frock with a blue one. And it dream and to achieve. remain imperishable. Last but
does make you feel different never least, hold this quote dear
and experience the change, but There also comes a point when to your heart:
maybe only for hours, and those you realize that we have never
hours of feeling different un- been taught to live in the now.
doubtedly will never replace the Living solely for the purpose of
years we spent being ungrateful not being too young or too old to
and needlessly impatient. do or experience something
specific in life will lead you to a
“Your life is a series of moments in “now”. The
better you make your “now”, the better you
make your life.” – Karen Salmansohn
36
One day you are going to sit on And now as I look at myself and wretched nowhere. Certainly, it
the edge of the bed and get fear dive inordinately deep into my is great to look forward to things
-stricken at the realization that thoughts, I feel as though I am in life, but if you spend your
your feet are no longer short still the same size even when I weeks waiting for the weekends
and can finally brush against the grew taller, and that I am still to come by, your school months
floor. One day your father will the same person even when I waiting for summer vacations,
tell you he expects straight A’s try to change to better myself your school years waiting to
from you without finding it nec- every day. I guess I have been graduate, your college years
essary to teach you every word entirely wrong every year during waiting to get a job, and your
you need to commit to my birthday parties when I working years waiting to retire,
knowledge and memory for your would think that maybe, just know that you are wasting a
exams. maybe, this year I would not lifetime on days that will be for-
hear the saying, “but you’re still gotten and unappreciated.
We were disconcertingly oblivi- too young”. I am certainly going
ous at how these realizations to consider myself too young The question still resonates non
are more oddly frightening than even when I have exceeded the -stop: “when am I ever going to
they are satisfying. It is never age of eighty, with white thin- get out of the womb and experi-
good to know the impossibility ning hair and wrinkled skin. The ence real life?” Reality lies here:
of experiencing such harmless truth is nobody will ever stop you only do that once in a life-
days ever again. being too young. time. Currently, you are not pre-
paring yourself for life, but you
The day such startling realiza- What bothers me here, you see, already are alive, and the time
tions began to strike me was in is the idea that we have been you start to deal with real life,
eighth grade, when I looked taught to think of this saying as and experience being alive,
down on my blue frock, my a bad thing, and to use it with starts from the day you are born
higher-grade uniform, and felt bad intentions, and feel inferior onward, and continues through
absolutely no different. I started when somebody uses it against childhood, teenage years, adult-
to recall the times I was waiting us, when it should rather be hood and ends at death. And
to get rid of my lower-grade uni- about encouraging people to make sure that, after your
form and finally replace my gray dare to live, to try, to fail, to death, your words and ideas
frock with a blue one. And it dream and to achieve. remain imperishable. Last but
does make you feel different never least, hold this quote dear
and experience the change, but There also comes a point when to your heart:
maybe only for hours, and those you realize that we have never
hours of feeling different un- been taught to live in the now.
doubtedly will never replace the Living solely for the purpose of
years we spent being ungrateful not being too young or too old to
and needlessly impatient. do or experience something
specific in life will lead you to a
“Your life is a series of moments in “now”. The
better you make your “now”, the better you
make your life.” – Karen Salmansohn
36
