Never missing out.

Sometimes it feels like life is breathing down my neck.

Like time is slipping through my fingers.

And there aren’t enough hours in the day.

‘Hurry up, you are wasting precious time, get on with it!’

Do you ever have those moments?

FOMO, right?

Well, what we rarely acknowledge, what we rarely reflect on, is that it’s absolutely impossible to miss out on something, anything really.

Can’t be done.

If you were not at the party that turned out to be absolutely epic, you simply weren’t at the party.

You didn’t miss out on it.

You can’t ‘almost’ be somewhere.

You can’t ‘almost’ do something.

Because if that really is a thing, it opens up a crazy can of worms.

While you were supposedly missing out on the Party of the Century, you also missed out on inventing a new cancer cure, swimming with dolphins or turtles or German shepherds, having a conversation with a gardener on the other side of the world, shaving off your hair, writing a book on mushrooms, having sex with a garden hose, falling down a mountain, listening to Dolly Parton, building a model of the universe from Legos…