Carpe Diem...

a couple hundred yrs ago, benjamen franklin shared the secret of his success.

"never leave that till tomorrow," he said "which you can do today."

this is the man who discovered electricity. you would think that more of us would listen to what he had to say.

i don't know why we put things off but i would probably say that it has a lot to do with fear. fear of failure. fear of pain. fear of rejection. sometimes the fear is just of making a decision because what if you are wrong? what if you do something that you can't undo?

the early bird catches the worm...
a stitch in time saves nine...
he who hesitates is lost...

we can't pretend that we haven't' been told. we've all heard the philosophers, the proverbs, warning us about wasted time. heard the poets urging us to seize the day. but still, sometimes we have to see for ourselves.

we have to make our own mistakes. we have to learn our own lessons. we have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrows rug until we can't anymore. until we finally understand for ourselves what benjamen franklin meant.

that knowing is better than wondering.
that waking is better than sleeping.
and that even the biggest failure beats the hell out of never trying.