Waiting to say YES

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is forever disappointing and forever rewarding. There are so many feelings people feel on a daily basis when it comes to experiences they encounter making them feel a range of emotions from good to bad depending on the minute. It can take something as small as a few words to brighten someone’s day or to ruin it, and it’s hard to realize we are this fragile and susceptible to interactions and relationships with others.

I have thought a lot over the past few days about the concept of ‘waiting’ to do something great. As many of you know, the idea of coming to Korea was somewhat of a quick choice that manifested overnight and within a few months I was here. While abroad I have decided I want to see as many places as possible and experience the world. For me, I am not letting something like the price of airfare or hotels play any part in my dream of seeing the world because I don’t want to WAIT to do something great. I have an opportunity to do it now and I do not see why I would not take it? Of course I can rationalize saving my money and that maybe one day in the future I will travel around Asia and do all the trips I didn’t do this year, but I just don’t see the logic in that.

What are we waiting for?

I am going to Bali and Kuala Lumpur in 3 days and I couldn’t be happier about that. I couldn’t imagine not jumping at the chance to travel around Asia while I am here because of the distant thought that ONE DAY I will get a chance to do it again. Why not now? The same train of thought came into my head about buying my Mom her plane ticket to come and see me in February. Sure, I COULD wait until September to see her, but if it would make myself and her extremely happy to come sooner then WHY NOT? What would I be waiting for?

I know quite a few people that only choose to live their lives to the fullest when there is some tragedy. They have been given a terminally ill diagnosis so they book the flight to Europe that they have always dreamed about and finally see the cities of their dreams. Or because of that terminally ill diagnosis the family of that person buys a plane ticket out to spend time with that person, when they have wanted to see them for so long now. What are they all waiting for? Europe has always been there and the address of the family member was common knowledge.

Now, I understand there are a million reasons to save money, to stay home, to not do the things you want to. I’m just saying sometimes it’s good and necessary to say yes. It’s important to not WAIT, because sometimes waiting is the same as saying NO to your dreams and then they will never come true. By no means do I have the money to be doing everything in my mind I want to do, but you better believe I’m going to knock a bunch of things off my bucket list whenever I can; purely because I don’t want to wait, the time is now!

 

If the world is really supposed to end in 48 hours, what is it that you will wish you had not waited to do?  I won’t have anything to add to that list….