What Goes Up Must Come Down!!
On my last column that I wrote I left you wondering what decision I was going to take in regards to my life. To answer that question I didn’t make one, or I did.
My world travels, my schooling and everything in between has been put on hold in order for me to pay down my debt. Will I ever take that path again to discover the world and see different cultures with no strings attached to a particular geographical location, a job, a person or a child? I’m not sure, as Robert Frost put it:
“And both that morning equally lay, In leaves no step had trodden black,
Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.”
Life has an interesting way of unfolding in front you and you never know what may lay ahead. I was thinking of this and missed opportunities while watching the movie Big with Tom Hanks. While watching the movie I discovered that everywhere you look and if you pay attention you see opportunity. This came about because in this movie Tom Hanks’ character wants to create Digital Comics, it took a while, but years later those have become reality in the form of RPGs and basically any video game that is out there today. You can also see in a scene that the device they are trying to use to play these Digital Comics resembles a Kindle.
Toward the end of the movie Tom Hanks’ ask Elizabeth Perkins character if she would like to come along with him. She responds by saying, “I’ve been there, it was hard enough the first time”. That got me to thinking about second chances and life. If you had a chance to go back to highschool and make the most of it, would you change the way you approached things?
How about now, looking at your life today, do you think in 10-15 years from now you are going to be sitting around saying, “If I had the chance to go back 10-15 years I would make different decisions.” I wonder how many of us would say that? When is it too late to start over and when is it too late to change your ways or learn something new. Is it too late for me to be an astronaut or a race car driver?
While watching Big I also discovered that this movie introduced me to my first cougar. If you think about it Tom Hanks ends up falling and sleeping with a woman much older then him, a cougar by today standards. By the way if you want to make a wish to Zoltar you can do that at Old Town San Diego, you never know it might just work.
