Doing the things you cannot do

Saw a re-run of one of the episodes of Grey's Anatomy (the one with the lady with the big cyst). I love what Dr. Grey said on the last part:

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin
shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow,
he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You
think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put
things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a
decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you
can't undo?


The early bird catches the worm.

A stitch in time saves nine.

He who hesitates is lost.

We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the
proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted
time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have
to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own
lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we
can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin
really meant.

That knowing is better than wondering,

that waking is better than sleeping,

and even the biggest failure, even the worst,

beat the hell out of never trying.