What Might We Lose by Letting Today Pass Us By?

Sophie had been thinking about learning to paint for months. Whenever she saw a painting she liked, she imagined what it would be like to create something of her own.

One afternoon, a local art studio announced a free introductory workshop. It was taking place the following Saturday. Sophie saved the announcement, thinking she would decide later.

During the week, she remembered it several times. Each time, something else seemed more pressing. By Friday evening, she had forgotten about it entirely.

A few weeks later, she came across the announcement again while looking through her saved messages. The workshop had already taken place.

She felt a small pang of disappointment. It was not that she had missed a life-changing opportunity. She could still learn to paint, and another workshop might come along.

But she wondered how many things she had wanted to try and quietly set aside, not because she had decided against them, but because she had never quite decided at all.

That evening, Sophie took a sheet of paper and a pencil from a drawer. She sat at the kitchen table and began drawing the plant on her windowsill.

It was not what she had originally imagined, but it was a beginning.

A Question to Explore
What is something you have wanted to experience or explore but have repeatedly postponed?