5. when is it really to late too start?

As always I find the inspiration behind these short blog entries during my daily routine- work, friends, family, coffee. Lately I have been thinking a lot about education, travel and buying houses and to be honest I really only have personal experiences in one of those subjects.

Before I packed up and left my generous paying 9-5 desk job to travel Europe twice over in the back of a van living like a hippy, I honestly had a little voice in my head telling me it was too late to even think of doing anything like that..

But coming back after just getting up and doing it, I am a whole lot wiser. I’ve learnt that no matter how comfortable you are in your job, your friendships, your housing situation- none of this is ever irreplaceable (except the good friendships you have of course) all of that can be rebuilt again.

I think the fear of it being "too late" makes us reluctant to begin in the first place. I had a conversation with someone today in regards to education, we were speaking about how if we started study now, we could be 30 before the time we had finished. Instantly it was off putting. I was a little ashamed of thinking like that at first but something quickly prompted the thought that; its better to be 30 and have a degree than to be 30 without- Even if you do have to start a little later in life than everyone else.

Its never too late to start something you love or will benefit from in the future, the trick is not to convince yourself that in the present you shouldn't be doing it because in the future you will be too old for it.

Anyone reading this, thinking about starting something new but also thinking you have left it a little late- Just do it. Or at the least give it a go.

I would be a very proud 30 year old if I had done all the things I had wanted, rather a 30 year old who had wished my late 20s away because I thought I was too old to start.

Now off to bed to dream up my 6 year plan.