It is Never Too Late

Many people believe that their best creative days are behind them -- that they could have accomplished great things if only they had started sooner and that they are "too old" to take on a big, hairy project. Try to get a whiff of what some extraordinary people accomplished late in life. You may not be a Michelangelo or Stradivarius, but so what? You can still accomplish miracles. All you need to do is begin (and let go of the thought that "it's too late.") Nothing is late to make a new beginning. Michelangelo designed the dome in St Peter’s basilica when he was 72 years old; Frank Lloyd Wright designed Guggenheim Musuem while he was 91; Gold Meir became Prime Minister of Isreal at 72, Peter Drucker wrote the “Management Change for Turbulent Times” at 89, Gandhiji won freedom for India when he was 77; Nelson Mandela ascended the President ship of South Africa at 75(Courtesy: The Creative Age by Gane Cohen)” “My only Love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen, unknown, known too late! Prodigious birth of Love it is to me, that I must love a loathed….” (Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare). Juliet is saying,” My only love springs from my only hate! I saw him too early when I didn’t know him, and now I realize who he is too late...” We learn about ancient cultures in our History classes. Most of the old civilizations are gone. Some have left little behind except ruins and rubble. What happened? Where are the people, their music and ideas? Why are they nothing more today than a collection of stones visited by tourists, anthropologists and curious historians? The answer, of course, is not the same the world over. But Arnold Toynbee, in his work The Study of History (1987), says that the great lesson of history is this: civilizations that changed when confronted with challenges thrived. Those that did not change died. In other words, when life got hard, it killed off those who didn't make needed changes. The key to survival is often about "change." What about us and the need to change in contemporary ages. What about all of us? It's good to accept ourselves as we are, but when an unhealthy attitude or a destructive behavior gets in the way, when we wish we could change something about ourselves, we had better change. People who embrace change thrive; those who resist it do not shine! If you have been waiting for a propitious time to make that needed change, this may be apt moment to usher in that change. It is never too late to be the person you might have been. It's never too late to be happy. It's never too late to do something different or to do something better. It's never too late to change a habit. It's never too late to do anything that brings a sustainable change. Begin making that necessary change today. Then tomorrow, and every tomorrow thereafter, can truly be different. All of us feel in one way or the other that if we are given a new life, we could start fresh altogether new. “It is Too late now to alter our life Course” feel most of us who missed one or the other opportunity. A school drops out rues his decision when in his mid life he does not get good jobs. I wish I could go back to School to study, he laments. But he consoles himself saying, it is too late now. Somebody who had drinking problem wanted to conquer alcoholism and begin again. But, she was affected by an incurable disease and so he felt that “it is too late now.” When two thick friends break away, both do not take the initiative to hold out an olive branch. Then the rift becomes unrepirable. It is too late to patch up by making amends” feel both of them. But this is escapism. It is never too late to begin anything. It has been said that, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." The rest of your life is not yet written - it can be whatever you want it to be