If you’re only living to get to the end of the journey, you miss the whole point. It’s silly really; it’s like you are reading a book but you skip everything in the middle just to get to the glorious ending. Yet, you’ll find it’s not that glorious after all. Although you want to know how it ends, if you don’t read what happens in the middle you miss the whole story. And what’s the point in knowing how something ends if you don’t even know why it ended that way.

We all want to believe that at the end there’ll be something great. We believe the end is the reward for all our hard work. But if you live like that you will not enjoy the end, because true enjoyment only comes with that sense of fulfillment. And you will not be fulfilled if you put off everything in your life in hopes that you’ll finally be able to get what you truly desire once the formalities are out of the way.

Don’t live according to societal standards; don’t make yourself wait for happiness. Because you’ll wake up all those years later and realize that you don’t feel very different from when you started. We all have this idea of reaching for something. We say okay I have to do this, and this, and this; I have to take this many years of schooling, go to college, get that job, earn that acceptable paycheck, find that forever partner… then after all that I can finally begin my life because I am “stable” and fit into the societal standard of readiness.

It doesn’t have to be that way. We are all pressured to live according to that order. We are groomed from the time we are born and we are fed this nonsense from society and the culture that surrounds us. It is expected of us to live this way to some degree, and if we don’t fit into the categories already created for us before we’re even born, then we’re doing something wrong.

Just don’t wait to live your life.

Because you’ll want some of it back.