It’s Never Too Late To Do What You Love

Doing what you love gives you strength, defines you and builds you as a person, as someone who is capable of tracing their path day by day, in freedom and fullness.

This is something that many of us know. However, we are also clear that it is not always easy to do what we really want. Work, family obligations, and sometimes even the weight of routine, anchor these inner desires.

In life you have to maintain a proper balance. We will never neglect our own, the people we love, but it is important to remember that we are important too.

And if we stop doing what we like, little by little we will move away from our identity …

Who says it’s too late to do what you love?

It is very possible that at some point the following has happened to you: Wanting to make a change in your life and that someone, almost always a close relative or friend, tells us that “you are too old for something like that”.

You must remember that the only person with the right to tell yourself what to do or what not to do at all times is yourself. You can listen to the words of others with patience and respect, but the decision is yours.

The best age is what you are now

Do not think twice. There is no better age or an age in which one loses the right to start new things. It is never too late for what makes us happy, and we must always keep that in mind.

• The worst regret we can make ourselves is reaching old age being aware that ours has been a “life not lived.”

• They say that each stage of life has its characteristics and experiences to live, to discover. There is no doubt about that, but it is not because of a lot of accumulated experience that we are going to stop “carrying the backpack even more”. The more experience, the more wisdom, and the more poise to continue living, to do what you love.

Those who tell us that “it is too late”

Sometimes, when we think about doing what we really want or have always dreamed of, we come across the odd social wall.

Social walls are nothing more than prejudices, limiting thoughts and anchors to the personal growth of others.

• Keep in mind that those who try to veto you from doing what you want may be the people closest to your social circle, and they do it because they fear losing you, they fear that you will break that bond you have with them to leave their zone of control.

• You may dream of a trip, or of studying that career or, simply, prioritize a little more each day by signing up for courses, going out a little more and meeting friends.

• Doing what you love doesn’t always translate into extreme changes. In fact, most of the time they are everyday acts that give us happiness.

• Those who tell us that it is too late attack our self-esteem. They make us believe that our train has passed and that life, for us, is reduced to dreaming of what could have been and never was. Do not let that happen.

Do what you love without causing harm to other people

The key is as simple as this: You can do whatever you want, as long as your actions do not harm the people you love.

How does this translate? We must bear in mind that sometimes small acts can have unwanted consequences. It is not, for example, wanting to go around the world spending all the household savings. Not even less neglecting our children. Everything has its balance.

Doing what you love in freedom, in fullness and thereby benefiting others is the best there can be. Think, for example, of the people who finally go back to university to get the training they always dreamed of.

Something like this enriches us inside, makes us feel proud. And someone who feels good about himself can make others happier.

Doing what you love shouldn’t be complicated, and no one should put walls on you, not even you. Because we believe it or not, the ones who most veto our personal growth are ourselves.

These are the ways we do it:

• Through limiting attitudes, thinking that we are already too old for certain things.
• Being afraid of failure, of making mistakes.
• Fear what others may say about us when we do what we want at a given moment.
• To think that we are not going to achieve it, that we are no longer valid for certain things …

We must be brave, have courage and always remember that it is never too late to be happy. It is never too late to love again, to take a trip or to acquire new skills.

As long as the illusion is strong, health and optimism accompany you, nothing and no one should put limits on you.