Some people get inspiration from anything…

• a smell
• a random moment
• a person
• a look
• a touch
• an object
• a picture
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.

Well, the inspiration for this post came from a candy (ring-pop) I have in my room… the problem is, that it’s been there for awhile *it’s still ant free*. Anyways, I won that candy in a Baby Shower and it’s not that I don’t like that candy, the problem is that I do, a lot but I was always waiting for the ‘perfect’  moment to eat it. So, one day I saw the candy and thought “I’m in the mood for a ring-pop”  but when I saw the expiration date, it was past overdue. So then, I sat down and started thinking: I should’ve had that candy long time ago but instead I kept waiting and waiting and now I don’t get to eat my candy. I realized that I tend to do this a lot in life, and I bet that you do too…

We have something to do, to say, to get, to eat, to write… but we always leave it for later. Either because we’re lazy to do it now or we are waiting for the ‘perfect moment’ or we’re afraid. As silly as it may sound, that ring-pop taught me a valuable lesson. There is no better moment than right now. Yea, yeah, yeah, we are tired of hearing it. I know I was but I didn’t realize how true it was when that happened. Of course I wasn’t weeping about a ring-pop, I could just go to the supermarket and get one. But I started thinking about all the moments that went away, the ones I can’t get back. In life, there’s no supermarket where you can go and purchase a “second chance”  or a two for a prize of one “trip”  or a half of “I love you too.”  It’s not often we get second chances, sometimes it’s even a miracle we get a first chance. So, my advice to you, is to stop waiting, to stop running away, to stop procrastinating and start taking every opportunity life gives you. Don’t wait for its due date.

So, at the risk of sounding Cliché: Carpe Diem =) 

P.S. That Ring Pop was DELICIOUS… =)