Never leave till tomorrow

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.

- 1시즌에 나왔던 '옛날' 나레이션이지만, 오늘 우연히 발견되어 수집차원에서.

* see for oneself 손수 확인하다[조사하다]
* sweep ... under the rug 《영·구어》 <실패·좋지 못한 것[일]을> 감추다, 비밀로 하다

^^;;

몇 주째 그레이 아나토미는 휴식 중.
우리나라 방송에서는 상상도 할 수 없는 일이 너무 자주 일어난다.
그래도 얌전히 앉아 재방송을 보는 미국사람들이 참 신기하다. --;;