Pursuing Your Dreams: It's Only "Too Late"... If You Don't Start NOW!

It seems like one of the most common rationalizations we humans use in life — as reasons for not doing something — is that we're "too late" to do it.

But is that really true?

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"It's TOO LATE for me to learn a foreign language!"

We use the assertion of being "too late" both personally and globally. Personally, we think it's too late to do things because we're older and wiser. Globally, we think it's too late to catch new trends and opportunities.

And it's not necessarily an avoidance technique... often we sincerely believe what we're saying.

I'm not above it, by the way. There are a number of things I have thought myself "too late" to do. Some were even true; most were not.

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"It's TOO LATE for me to start my own business!"

The idea of Too Late — I believe — comes from our own fears of fully engaging in our own most private desires and dreams... and exposing ourselves to the possibility that those dreams might turn out to be little more than just that: dreams.

Secretly, we are looking for some sort of guarantee or even "permission" from the Great Big Whatever that if we do launch ourselves into our deepest desires... that we will not be disappointed.

The slightly twisted thing about all this is that we very seldom say that we're "too late" to do those things we feel pretty indifferent about... but that still need doing!

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"It's TOO LATE to buy Bitcoin!"

But nobody makes it through life without being disappointed. Nobody. At some point, some shit, somewhere will go wrong, and we will end up disappointed.

Eternally postponing the things we really want the most ultimately leads to a drawer full of regrets. And that's not really a great place to be.

In the end, the old truism "It's better to have tried and failed, than not to have tried at ALL!" holds true.

When will be admit that it's ABOUT TIME to quit our soulless job and take the lumps that go with a 70% pay cut (Been there, done that!), so that it's our life we're living, rather than someone else's?

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"It's TOO LATE to fall in love again!"

It's never too late to fall in love again!

The thing is, so often we doubt our own worthiness; our own wisdom; our own experience; our own skills; our own desirability... whatever it is we need to get from point A to point B.

Pretty much all of life is "risky," in one way or another. But nobody's asking us to go out and "take risks, for risks' sake," just that we dare to reach the things we truly want.

Take a risk on ourselves.

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"It's TOO LATE to change my career!"

I'm older than dirt, and in the mainstream world many would suggest that it's "too late" for me to be hanging out with a bunch of Millennials, blogging about blockchains and cryptocurrency.

I "should be" gardening and playing shuffleboard in Florida!

But I'm not. And I'm glad for that.

Thanks for reading, and have an amazing weekend!

How about YOU? What have you felt it was "TOO LATE" for, if anything? Or have other people told you it was "TOO LATE" for something? Were these things closest to your heart? Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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When will we admit that it's ABOUT TIME to quit our soulless job and take the lumps that go with a 70% pay cut (Been there, done that!), so that it's our life we're living, rather than someone else's?

...the more I look into it, the more I see this never happening on a large scale (not applying this to me, obviously.)
Conformity mindsets....(and by definition, will always be in the majority).
Unless 'the majority mindset' becomes decentralized , it wont happen.
I see no route - barring cataclysmic events - to that happening...Power never gives itself away voluntarily - and power lies in the centralized structures.

...Hence my 'critical eye' on the entire crpyto space ever becoming truly decentralized - and it not being some massive social experiment to shoe horn in crypto as the new 'money'....(nothing would make me happier than being utterly wrong on this one...)

I do so wish you were wrong, but the part of me that actually believes you're wrong grows smaller with every year that passes.

The challenge I see (or we could be more honest and call it "problem") is that the "conformity mindsets" seem to automatically want to centralize themselves. From where I am sitting, it's not just about power not giving itself away, it's about the willingness of the many to give away their power... if we just have one central body do all the thinking, we won't have to expend energy on engaging in critical thinking for ourselves (not talking you or I, just the "masses").

My personal "fear" for the crypto/blockchain space is that we have reached a point where the genie can no longer be put back in the bottle, SO THEREFORE those centralized organizations threatened by the decentralized paradigm will instead play along and usurp the concept... and we'll end up with *"Amazon Coin"" and "Bank of America Coin" and "eBay Coin" and so forth, and then the great non-thinking "Conformity sheep" will reach a point where they all want to pile into crypto... and they'll — en masse — pile into the familiar names like Amazon, Bank of America and eBay while fully believing that they are part of some new disruptive revolution while the actual decentralized idealism will be pushed into some distant shadows where the remaining 3% of us live.

I also wish I were very wrong about that...

You don't think the BTC project wasn't engineered into existence by the powers that be as test run/taster ? (my cynical side says 'there is no other way', my idealist side says 'I hope not')..ie 'the genie out of the bottle' was a controlled illusion...?

As long as the sycophant 'midwit' runs through the corridors of power, 'the institutions' will not fall...(how can they, when those immediately below them in the hierarchy wish for the status quo?..pharma, media, the MIC.. ). ....They may label themselves differently to fool the gullible, but the structure remains. (a little like the illusion that the royalty/banks gave power away to 'the people' , in the UK)

Even a hippy trippy, happy clappy dude like yourself (lol), must be able to see that conflict is coming ?...- it has nothing to do with 'liking it' or not.
The most peaceful way to win this war, is to delegitimatize the idiots - the bureaucrats, the mid-wits, the sycophants...(imo).
....laughter and mockery is the light shone on them, that they have no defense against. (apart from destroying your accounts and devious shit like that - but hey, your grand kids will thank you for the sacrifice...)

“Eternally postponing the things we really want the most ultimately leads to a drawer full of regrets. And that's not really a great place to be.”

that sent chills down my spine. thank you for this inspiring post!!!
seabass

Thanks for the kind words; I'm glad you found something useful in the post!

Oh, and a belated welcome to Hive!

Great article. I'm 50. Two years ago I got divorced, I quit my old job and started studying photography in order to make it my new profession. There was a moment when I thought it was too late to change something. But it would be a big mistake not to try.

Beautiful flowers!