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COLUMN: It's now or never: the time is now...

───   14:18 Fri, 20 Oct 2017

COLUMN: It's now or never: the time is now... | News Article

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb.


A very profound proverb which echoes the sentiments I have in my heart. The sentiments which trouble my soul day and night. I find it very troubling and interesting that we wait on something that doesn't have the ability to wait on anyone. TIME. In the famous words of Tupac Shakur (May his legendary soul Rest In Peace): "Life goes on." It doesn't matter what happened yesterday, today or what will happen tomorrow; rain or sunshine, life goes on, time waits for no man. So why wait? Often times we hold ourselves back from doing something all in the name of waiting for the "PERFECT TIME" as if we have power even as small as a mustard seed over TIME. Whereas in reality we don't and will never do. Now, where does that leave us? It leaves us with this reality: "IT'S NOW OR NEVER: THE TIME IS NOW..."

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls; it's now time to put pieces together and ACT. You have been flirting with your dreams/goals for far too long. It's NOW time for you to make those dreams come true. You have been delaying and postponing for far too long. Take this moment and dare yourself to reach out for the stars. You have been going through heartache and enduring pain for some time now. It's now time for you to become joyful and happy again. The heart-ripping-apart truth is that: Life won't stop because you hurt. Time won't wait for you to heal. With or without you, it moves. So why wait? Wake up! Get up! And smell the coffee. Tell you what, in the next five years, it's the things you didn't do which you're going to regret the most, more than the ones you did. You can't carry living your life WONDERING what will be if you take that risk. Right now at this moment; this is the perfect time for you to stop wondering and find out exactly what will be if you dare yourself to be what and who you want to be and to chase what you want in life. Don't be that guy or lady who in the next 20 years will be wishing that he/she had started early. 

You will never be ready for anything in life. But let me share a secret with you: "God has a remarkable way of preparing you for something even though you never thought you had the ability or capability to do it." All you have to do is take that first step and act! Forget about HOW you're going to do it and just do it. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. For all we know, we might not even see the beautiful sunrise the following day. But you have this TIME to make something out of life and out of yourself. Seize the moment. No need to wait for tomorrow to do something that you can do today. There will never be a perfect time than the time you have now. So many songs are yet to be sung; so many achievements are yet to be attained; so many new inventions are yet to be born; so many broken friendships and relationships are yet to be fixed... all because someone is waiting for the perfect time to act. Good people, we can't wait any longer. The time is now!

I don't know what you want or desire in life... you do. You don't know what tomorrow holds for you. You don't have any idea when the perfect time will arrive... nor how it will look like when it does. But you know one thing for sure; that today, right now, it's now or never. It's a do-or-die situation. 

Against all odds; put up the FIGHT of your lifetime to make the time that you now have count! Always remember; the best way to determine the future is through the actions

Happy FIGHT DAY!





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