Someone once asked...

“Why am I afraid of wasting my life?”

Someone answered with kindness...

A man in his sixties told me he'd wasted his twenties. Then I met him again ten years later — he told me he'd wasted his thirties, mourning the twenties he thought he'd lost. That's the trick of this fear: it eats whatever year you're currently in, in the name of protecting your future ones. Nobody gets a life with zero waste in it. Some years will look aimless even to you, later. The question isn't how to avoid wasting time — it's whether you're willing to stop wasting this day worrying about all the others.

✦ This sign has found its fate.

Wandering voices — answers no one has read yet