Wordy Wednesday

It's Wednesday.  For many, it's one of the busier days of the week.  You realize all the work that must be done before Friday.  Maybe you have commitments in the evening that tie you up.  Maybe you are just tired after a couple long days at work.  

Regardless, Wordy Wednesday here at 'The Sunset Won't' is a quote, short passage or verse that I enjoy and I want to pass along to you.  So here is this week's Wordy Wednesday installment:

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.

- Grey's Anatomy -