\u201cAs soon as this work project gets done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as we get more settled in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as I\u2019m done planning this event.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as the kids are older.\u201d<\/p>\n
How commonly do we offer these postponements to personal urges and others-issued invitations to take a trip, make a move, or simply hang out?
\n\u201cThings are busy right now,\u201d we tell ourselves. \u201cBut in a week\/month\/year, my calendar will be much freer. Good times are right around the corner!\u201d
\nThere is a bit of truth to this. Different seasons in life are certainly more and less busy. Parents of toddlers will find their bandwidth more burdened than parents of school-age children. Retirees have much more discretionary time than young folks still scaling the professional ladder.<\/p>\n
And yet, no matter what stage of it you\u2019re in, life never seems to entirely open up. It never becomes so unencumbered, that you practically can\u2019t help but follow through on your good-times intentions.
\nIf time was the determining factor in one\u2019s availability for fun and adventure, then you wouldn\u2019t find families with young kids who still travel, nor retirees who do nothing but stay home and watch TV.<\/p>\n
Doing the things you really want to do is not a function of fullness of schedule, but determination of heart.
\nAt a certain point you have to countenance the fact that you\u2019re not going through an atypically busy season; that work and obligations and responsibilities are not short-term aberrations from normal life, but permanent, inherent fixtures of it.
\nAt a certain point you have to realize that there is no corner. That life is instead one long, perennially-cluttered corridor, and when it comes to saying yes to that literal or metaphorical party, now\u2019s as good a time as any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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