“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
- George Eliot (1819 – 1880), English novelist, poet, Victorian era
Yet life, the Enemy, society, and social media don’t want us to remember that.
The rear-view mirror tells us where we’ve been, and the windshield shows us where we’re going, as the overworked cliche reminds us. Size matters in this case, it turns out.
What lies ahead is pretty much without borders, restrictions, and limits. More importantly, what lies behind is finished. That thing we did or said can’t be undone or unsaid.
I joked with a couple of my military buddies on Veteran’s Day about whether I could pass the basic training physical and join up as a tribute to them. “What’s your two-mile run time?” one of them asked, prompting my reply: “A week, week-and-a-half, maybe!” So, are there some borders, restrictions, and limitations? Of course! Yet, for every twenty we imagine, one may be real. For every reason “to not to,” (Thanks, ‘Mater, from Cars!), there are twenty reasons to.
“Never” is not a word I like to use, nor is it one I take lightly. I’ll stand with George Eliot on this one. It is never too late to make a difference.
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