When the "Someday" Never Comes

One of the most formative moments in my life was watching my Dad make his plans for the future.

When I retire I'll...

He made all these plans involving his wife and his best friend, working 16-hour days to create the future he envisioned.

I watched my mother sit on her chair, pining for him every day.

His wife and his best friend were both dead by the time he retired.

I vowed to never give up today for a tomorrow so uncertain.

[I]n nooks all over the earth sit men who are waiting, scarcely knowing in what way they are waiting, much less that they are waiting in vain. Occasionally the call that awakens– that accident which gives the permission to act — comes too late, when the best youth and strength for action has already been used up by sitting still; and many have found to their horror when they ‘leaped up’ that their limbs had gone to sleep and their spirit had become to heavy. ‘It is too late,’ they said to themselves, having lost their faith in themselves and henceforth forever useless. ― Friedrich Nietzsche