Make That Move Right Now

I'm revisiting an old post, here. I was listening to Make That Move by Shalamar and I thought about the quote by Jean-Jacques Rosseau I had posted before summer began. Both are kinda talking about grabbing life by the horns and taking advantage of opportunities when they arise. And, of course, that's good advice for everybody. Well...maybe not for my ex-girlfriend; I'd tell her that sometimes it's good to stand pat, too. But listen to what Big John, Howard Hewitt and Jody Watley have to say and adjust your goals accordingly.

"How rapid is our journey on this earth! The first quarter of life has been lived before one knows the use of it. The last quarter is lived when one has ceased to enjoy it. At first we do not know how to live; soon we can no longer live; and in the interval which separates these two useless extremities, three-quarters of the time remaining to us is consumed by sleep, work, pain, constraint, and efforts of all kinds. Life is short, not so much because it lasts a short time as because we have almost none of that short time for savoring it. The moment of death may well be distant from that of birth, but life is always too short when this space is poorly filled. We are, so to speak, born twice: once to exist and once to live." -- Jean Jacques Rosseau