Start now, not later

If I had six months to live I would pursue my dreams without hesitation. I would not be able to do anything that requires a college degree however the things I want to do that do not require one I would start doing as soon as I could. I would work with rescue horses and lesson horses teaching kids to ride. I would use natural horsemanship to train the horses and I would use some of the horses to do equine therapy with teens. I think the most important thing I thought about when given the question what would I do with six months left to live is, first off what would I do because whatever that is it is one of the things I want most, and second, what I've thought most about, is why am I not pursuing it now? Why is it that we wait and wait to follow our dreams when we could be doing it now? Yes, some of the things I want to do, like being a therapist, requires more education before I can actually practice, but why do we wait to begin following our dreams until we are considered 'old enough' or 'educated enough'? If I had six months to live I would not throw my life away but instead I would actually begin living my life. This is why I now ask myself, why am I not living my life now? It shouldn't take knowing death is near for us to do the things we most want to. We should be doing them now.