We Bloody Hypocrites

X Muse - Sunburn

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. “Never leave that till tomorrow”, he said, “Which you could do today.” This is the man who discovered electricity. You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it had a lot to do with fear.

Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection. Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you make a mistake you can’t undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true: that by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it. It can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor. And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.

The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'.

Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying. "

-Meredith from Grey's Anatomy

earlier on, my sis dropped my hamster from a high height. she fell on her back and apparently her nose bled. is she going to die? will she live? i almost cried as i carefully helped that puny furball wipe her blood off her nose. she struggled as if she is in hell of pain. i prayed.

its funny how we human treat each other sometimes. when X is still around, you treat him/her like they never existed and when you know X is going to die, all of a sudden your whole world revolves around with X.

**this does not only apply to a dying person.

we bloody hypocrites.