ready, set, live.

so, it seems lately that i have heard over and over that people "can't wait for thier lives to start" or they are "putting their lives on hold" for whatever reason and its quite likely that I, myself have used a similar phrase. yet, somewhere between then and now, i picked up a bit of philosophy, probably from a cheezy movie like Dirty Dancing or one of the other 34 cheezy movies i've seen lately, and i think that it is quite applicable to this time in my (and most of my friends and peers') lives. that is, for me at least, the last few years have been frought with transition after transition, change after change, and less and less certainty about my future.

the bit of philosophy that I've learned is simply that life started a long time ago, somewhere around 25 or so years back. and this is it. we have been given one life on this earth. one chance to do all of the things we ever wanted to do, and while I can't wait to have a husband and a house and a fence and a dog and a career and whatever else, these things don't mark the begining of my life, they mark the begining of a new track, a new chapter, or whatever sort of arbitrary separation of time one chooses.

so, ready, set, live.