And oh, what a treat it is when it does.
When someone you didn't think you'd ever hear from again reappears from the ether, when that thing that's been a few months away for years finally arrives, it's beautiful. Its revives a little bit of yourself you didn't know was still there.
Even more so when you can do something with it.
I've been procrastinating adding a feature to one of my scripts because it would have been mildly annoying to implement. Just the other day I found out that the exact feature I needed in the library I was using released not two weeks ago.
I implemented it the next day, and it was so lovely and simple to write.
What a textbook anecdote, right? How great for me that is, but you, the reader, live in the world of mortals where nothing happens on time and someday never comes.
...I know how this sounds.
I've been there, I'm still there, waiting for critical features of bug fixes which haven't even been looked at in months. Looking at the same four year old status update for the tenth time. Waiting for someone else who'll never remember.
Waiting for more time, more resources, more energy.
But I promise you, sometimes, someday comes.
The fact that it's rare makes it all the more precious. Treasure it.
Don't waste it, please.
Who knows how long you'll be waiting for the next one.
I've been meaning to properly get into a particular hobby for a while, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I was flitting around the edges for months, doing little things and dropping bigger ones after losing interest.
Five months later, I figured out the problem I was having, the kinds of things I wanted to do. It was obvious in retrospect. I probably could have found it faster, but it's a hobby. No rush.
But lo and behold, not two weeks after that, two hours unexpectedly freed up immediately after I had the right circumstances to be able to get the materials I wanted. I had the list already written from that day, so off I went.
I still don't have time to start working on it right now, but I'm no longer stuck from lack of materials. I can start whenever, because I had the list of materials already around somewhere.
You can't always plan for these things, but you can prepare for them.
What do you need, for it to be someday?
I give small examples, but we all have bigger somedays than this. What's your once in a lifetime miracle?
...are you ready for it?
Will you even recognize it's arrived?
Is it worse to spend an hour thinking about what you need for an opportunity which never comes, or to miss it as it flies by?
Even if you think it won't come, thinking about it might make you realize you can just make it happen yourself.
If you had two hours where the stars aligned, what's stopping you from starting?
- Rew
Nightly Notes
At last, a multi-day draft I don't hate. Writing is weird.
Still playing with formatting, I don't know if I like or hate the horizontal dividers. That's the nice thing about daily posts, I have so much space to experiment.
I'm fascinated by fate, I think in a way which is uncharacteristic of my particular nerd demographic. Tell me it isn't beautiful that things can just happen, for no apparent reason. Tell me it isn't the most wonderful thing to wake up and believe that just for today, the world has decided you get a good day today.
It's not true. But it feels true, and sometimes that's worth the world. Don't let it go to your head. Give yourself the gift of whimsy.
Anyway.
Tomorrow will be a day. It won't be mine, I know that already, but maybe it can be yours.
Enjoy it,
- Rew