If it is to be, it is up to me.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. –Anonymous

I am one of those people who definitely lives for today- in the NOW. In fact, it’s such a part of who I am, I remember being told constantly to be patient when I was a child. My mother would ask me why I was always in such a hurry. I couldn’t explain it then, but in retrospect, even as a kid I understood how fleeting time is and how fickle opportunity can be. Why wait until tomorrow to do something that I can do today? There might not even be a tomorrow. (This kind of thinking was probably cemented by my experiences with depression; I remember being especially passionate about seizing opportunities after my first suicide attempt at the tender age of 11.)

That said, I’m constantly working on finding a happy medium between my “do it now!” attitude and my grown-up reality. I think I may be working on it forever!