Wherever life has placed you, do not mistake it for a waiting room. Do not pass through your college years as though they are merely a corridor to employment, nor through your solitude as though it is only the absence of love. The things that are meant to arrive will arrive in their season, and they may be good when they do.
But there is a particular sorrow in looking back and realizing that you abandoned whole years of your life because you were busy longing for a different one. To grow, to strive, to become more than you are... these are noble things. But do not neglect the present in the name of the future. The present is not an interruption of your life. It is the only place from which your life can be made.
