Over the past two centuries, we humans have begun to live longer and relate to the possibilities of our own age in a different way. Just think: Pushkin called his nanny “an old decrepit woman” when she was only forty-two! A very young woman, as they say, is still ahead …
Previously, wanting to explain his inaction, a person sighed: “It’s too late for me …” Now, in a similar situation, we increasingly hear: “Well, it’s too early for me …” The motto is “Never too late!”, Simply created in order to encourage action and inspire faith in one’s own strengths, before our eyes it changes the meaning to the opposite: “Why hurry — you will have time …”
Let’s say I want to write a novel. But why hurry, I’m not even forty yet! And all my favorite writers wrote their first novels when they were already in their fifties (although before that they wrote stories, articles and novels, and I play computer games — but it’s never too late, right?). Or I want to have a baby. But where to hurry — in the USA they give birth at fifty! True, many people there do not smoke, almost do not drink and lead a healthy lifestyle, and I … But I will quit smoking and start running in the morning — is it never too late? I want to change my profession. I want to go to the mountains. I want to finally start making money…
EVEN A SIMPLE DREAM OF A QUIET OLD AGE IN THE CIRCLE OF LOVING RELATED REQUIRES LONG-TERM DAILY CARE.
However, we all know perfectly well that it’s too late — it happens, and for a variety of reasons: social, psychological, physiological … In order to become, for example, a professional athlete, you need to start seriously studying even before school. However, what athletes! Even a simple human dream of a quiet old age in the circle of loving relatives requires many years of daily care.
Of course, one can recall happy exceptions — for example, people who managed to make a discovery or earn their first million years at fifty. Indeed, this happens. But it is enough to look around to notice: we are surrounded by people who simply did not have time.
That is why, instead of habitually repeating “everything is ahead”, we should take a more sober look at the restrictions that society and our body put before us. And, perhaps, to admit: there are things that we will not be able to do if we do not do them now, in five, ten or twenty years. This will force us to imagine with our own eyes the time map of our possibilities and the next time, before, as usual, saying the soothing “it’s never too late”, think: when will the “high time” be? And don’t miss it.