It's better to act than just think
At the beginning I’d like to ask a question: How many of you have the driving license? Wow, so many; ok, I’d ask the person who don’t have it. Why don’t you have it? Cause you don’t want to learn, or you did want, but just haven’t taken action yet?
Six years ago, I wanted to learn driving, and my colleague also did. While I was thinking, she already took her action, several months later, she got her driving license, and I was still thinking. Two years ago, my sister started to learn driving, later she got her driving license, but I was still thinking. 5 months ago, finally, I stepped out the first step, after registration and practice, now I got my driving license.
Now when I look backwards, wondering it took 6 years to finish it? Why I didn’t do it at the beginning? Why?
Yesterday I saw a movie, named “the bucket list”, in this movie, two old men start to know each other, only because of the cancer, they have to live in the same room. One of the men named carter, he wants to be a history professor when he was young, after studying for two months in the colleague, he got the news that he was going to be a father, so he had to find a job firstly to support his family. When he recalls his life, he says, full of regret, “I was wanting to go back, but 45 years goes by pretty fast.”
When they are told there is only 6 months left for them, they write down their bucket list; by the way, the bucket list means a list full of all the things we want to do in our lives before our death. And after writing down their bucket list, they start to do it, one by one, such as skydiving, laugh loudly until getting cry, or kiss the most beautiful girl in the world. In the end, both of them leave the world with no regrets.
It is quite warm and moving, at the same time, we can feel the living philosophy, not leaving with regrets. Compared with the two old men, we are much luckier, because we are younger, we get more time to achieve our wishes. So now, write down our bucket list, maybe, it’s a travel to Paris, maybe it’s an expression of love to someone you like; maybe it’s just eating a delicious food you have wished so long.
Just do it, from now on, don’t let us have chance of regretting it when we look backwards in the age of 80.
Sometimes, we think that life is so long, we have a lot of time to spend. Is that true? on the contrary, life is so short, generally, we have only 80 years, which means, only 960 months, that is 4171 weeks, and unfortunately we have already spent 3 out of 8, and in the rest of it, one third of the time should be spent on sleeping, another one third on job, so there is only 868 weeks left for our own issues. Time is so limited, and it flies so fast just like a bird.
Don't hesitate, do it now, if you want to learn a skill, learn it; if you want to see a great movie, see it; if you want to change your hairstyle, no think, do it. It's better to act than just think.