Reply #27: Life is short

[SoCalDem]

The first 20 years are controlled by your parents & teachers

The last 20 years are controlled by a failing physical body

That leaves the middle part (usually 30-40 years).

Those are the years for YOU!

As someone who is pushing 62 (pushing it hard), I can tell you that the things we DON'T do, are the things that eat away at you as you age.

Be bold..take a chance.

The worst that can happen is that you "might" fail..but then maybe you won't. Even if you fail, you will learn something from that experience that will help you next time.

"Divorce" yourself from naysayers, unless they are intimately involved with whatever you are attempting to do. In that case, they may have valuable information that might spare you from making the same mistakes they did. In other cases, often the people who try to get you to doubt yourself, may just be envious because THEY never took the leap.