when it's time, it's time...

there is a question that always seems to pop up in my mind. it's something i'm sure most, if not all, people will get at various intervals of their lifetime:

when is it the right time to move on?

i've seemingly had plenty of experience with this question, for the few years of life i have led to date.

it comes up in all sorts of instances and occasions, be it making friends at school, relationships starting, relationships ending, places of employment, places to call home, and other places that you'd like to call home when the current residence feels more a "house" than a "home"

the thing i have learned from my own experiences, is that when the question is raised, it has to be followed through. there has never, not once, not at all, ever been a time when i have asked the question "have i had enough?" or "am i ready to take the plunge?", and not seen it through.

the failure to try and answer these questions, and not avoid them, has the worst possible punishment of all - regret. wishing that i'd taken the chance, or wishing i'd broken up with that (rather fat) partner 4 years earlier and not later.

i've become friends with someone in the last week who reminds me a bit of myself in trains of thought and feelings, as well as interests and preferences of a colder climate over the heatwaves of late. this person has once again ignited the flame of question under my feet "have i had enough of the status quo?".

the answer was an almost immediate "yes".

this post is something to help remind me as well as others who make the time to read this far, that life indeed is short.

and if ever the question beckons in the mind of mine and/or others "when is it the right time to move on?", the answer is, and will always be a resounding - NOW.

if you question what you are doing for even half a second - then you owe it to yourself to hunt for the answer, because if you were happy as you were, plodding along with things the same, you wouldn't have posed the question in your mind.

i have taken a step today to make attempts to move further forward with my life with the hope that i can once again reclaim the self sufficiency i desire and so badly miss in my life.

wish me luck, i can always use it!