Not profound, really. Do something, it's better to fail than to have never tried, life is short, you'll regret the undone more than the done, etc. A common message usually lost on youth and, in most rock music, written by youth. Interesting.
But from the more mature, we can fine a different perspective, from the future looking back, not about regret. We have something like Rush in "Time Stand Still":
"Summer's going fast
Nights growing colder
Children growing up
Old friends growing older
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer."
There's no time for everything, surely. But looking back no matter what you did or didn't do, it's the past, and doors closed, but you should stop regretting the done or undone and realize where you are and what is.
The wisdom of the "Do something while there's time" is replaced with "It ultimately doesn't matter. There is only now. There was always only now." No regrets.
Not profound, really. Do something, it's better to fail than to have never tried, life is short, you'll regret the undone more than the done, etc. A common message usually lost on youth and, in most rock music, written by youth. Interesting.
But from the more mature, we can fine a different perspective, from the future looking back, not about regret. We have something like Rush in "Time Stand Still":
"Summer's going fast Nights growing colder Children growing up Old friends growing older Freeze this moment A little bit longer."
There's no time for everything, surely. But looking back no matter what you did or didn't do, it's the past, and doors closed, but you should stop regretting the done or undone and realize where you are and what is.
The wisdom of the "Do something while there's time" is replaced with "It ultimately doesn't matter. There is only now. There was always only now." No regrets.