Wednesday, September 3, 2014

"Someday" is an excuse

There's a common saying that many people use to keep in mind that they will do it next time or in the future somehow... They call it hope or motivation, I call it an excuse. That saying is "Someday"; many people say that, even I do sometimes because it works, it gives you the temptation that you will do it in the future so that you don't need to do it now, but in reality it's just a trick that you use to deceive yourself. "Someday I will do it", "Someday it will happen to me", "Someday she will love me", "Someday he will have a crush on me"... What? Nah, the world doesn't work that way, it doesn't wait around for you and it doesn't rain opportunities on you "someday". "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." - Timothy Ferriss.
One question remain, why do people say "Someday"? Simple really, they are scared. It's true really, ask yourself deep inside, "why didn't I ask that girl out that day?", "why did I hesitated to perform my favorite song", "'why didn't I give that speech"... People are scared that they might get laughed at, that the girl might tease them, or the boy might reject her or the public will judge them; so they tell themselves that "someday" they will do it and hopefully succeed. I always said that to myself when I watch a school music performance, I told myself "Someday I will be on that stage performing my songs" but that day never came because I never got the guts to go on and I never stop telling myself "someday". It's been 10 years since I told myself that, and now I am 16 years old, I still haven't gone on stage to perform something of my own. It's sad really, it's also something I know I will regret in the future. The problem with say that is you will never stop telling yourself "Someday I will do that", no you won't, believe that because that's how human's mind works, if they never get over their fear and defeat it, they will keep on deceiving themselves and they will never achieve what they wanted a long time ago.
It's really easy to get over that fear and escape that circle of tricks; you just got to believe that you can do it and block a-way your fear, do not let them near your mind, just tell yourself "Go forward, go forward, do it, do it, keep walking" and before you can realise what you have just done or say "what the heck" you will be up there asking her out or on the stage speaking or signing up for that performance. You just got to stop all those fears from stopping you, because after everything you'd be glad and proud that you have made the right decision, and even if the audience or the results came out to be negative, so what? Who cares? Don't even try to judge me dude, you don't know what I've been through! Because at the end, just be proud of yourself of doing what you have always wanted to, do have reached your dreams, to have achieve your goals, and that "someday" will be that day.
So stop telling yourself "someday", it's just a bloody excuse to keep yourself from doing something you enjoy, it's stupid really, before you want to say "someday", shut your mouth, walk up there and act what you want, do not fear, do not worry, as this world is full of opportunities for you to grab hold, so you better not miss that chance by saying "someday"; and remember, you are not alone, in this world, planet Earth, there are many more human beings that are experiencing what you are having now, they have stopped saying "someday" and went up there to ask their crush out, to act on the stage, to be the leader of the school, to speak out their minds and express their own ideas; do not worry, fate is in your hands, it's you who decides to do or die.
And if you are wondering what happened to me, well after writing this article, I guess I should do the same; I promise you guys to perform one of my favorite song on school stage in the upcoming performance day, it's only fair that way. Now you go out there and act, and if fear comes back into the room, tell him his rent is up and he's being evicted.

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.” - Timothy Ferriss.

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