Time Enough At Last

I've caught myself saying, "if only I'd said something sooner..." a lot recently. For some reason, this makes me think of the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough At Last. You know, the one where Burgess Meredith never stands up for himself to make his life what he really wants, and then when it's handed to him, well... it doesn't end up quite how he dreamed. If you haven't seen it, I won't spoil it. Watch the episode embedded below.

Anyway, the moral of the story seems to me to be that waiting it out and just hoping for the best really isn't the way to go about life. In actuality, that course of action turns out to lead to regret. If only... if only...

It's so strange to me that someone told me not long ago that I always know the right things to say. That was a really nice thing to say, and I'd like to try to live up to it more. Actually, I think the material goal is to not only know the right thing to say, but to actually say it.

So there you have it, 2 weeks ahead of deadline, my New Year's resolution: in 2010 and the year of the Metal Tiger (ooh, I like that. Metal Tiger. Tiger of Metal. Rock and roll and Frosted Flakes and GRRRRREAT!), I will put my heart back on my sleeve, because it's done me no good tucked away in a bag in a box in a trunk in a safe in a locked room in a boarded up house underground on another planet... and learn how to say the right things instead of just knowing what they are.