"It is within our nature to assume that we'll be the same tomorrow as we are today," he began. "We think that it's ok to pass up a priceless chance now because we're too tired, or because there's too many things going on in our lives at the moment, and that there will always be more chances to come. And it's only when tomorrow arrives that we realize just what an opportunity it was that came and went. But I promise you, one day you will wake up and suddenly realize that you are old, and that less of your time is spent wondering what will be as opposed to what might have been. And the only thing standing between you and a deathbed of regret is the belief that the totality of your life has been spent with your eyes open, and that the limited chances that life had presented to you had been taken with nothing less than an effort that nearly killed you."
-Dead Weight by Daniel Mathis
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