Catching up can feel like an uphill battle. It’s not that we can’t catch up, but the fact that we’ve lost so much time that it has made the road to catching up feel like it’s impossible, or at least, harder to achieve. If only we had been wiser and started on our goals years ago, we wouldn’t have to catch up today.
Catching up can apply to anything: travel, finances, work, even projects that we abandoned for one reason or another. When we’re catching up, it’s like we have to make up for lost time–time which cannot be revisited or added back to our lives.
When we say to ourselves that we’ll eventually get to something, whether that is a place we’ve always wanted to travel to, or a book that we wanted to write, we end up not getting to it unless we make it a priority. If we put it aside, other things will take up our time, and eventually, we’ll end up looking back one day and wonder why we’re so far behind.
At that point, we have to start from the beginning, and even though the road will be long toward catching up, at least we still have some time left. But we must be prudent with our time, because time for us is a finite thing, and it’s easy to squander it if we’re not using it wisely.
Fallton Havenstonne 