Never too late?
Note: Please tell me if this actually makes sense. I think I might just be babbling....
So perhaps you have read Fang (the Maximum Ride book, not the Maximum Ride character). And if you have, you have likely read the hilarious questions in the back of the book, one of which being:
Do you think it's not too late, it's never too late?
And like a few other questions (Do you wear your sunglasses at night?) it referred to a song, though I didn't know this at the time. So after going on Pandora and typing in Seether or Three Days Grace the song that it referred to came up. (Never Too Late) After listening to it, I decided I liked it and therefore got it. And after listening to the song I got a few of my thoughts straight, including my answer to the question.
So do I think it's not too late, it's never too late?
No.
But only to a point.
Yes, I'm the one that loves happy endings, that tries to be an optimist, to find the silver lining in every bad situation, that wants all of my characters to grow up and get past all of the obstacles that I put in their way. Yet my answer to this might say differently.
You see, we all change. I mean we start out as babies unable to do much aside from babble and eat and sleep and cry, but then we learn. We learn how to speak, read, add, make, destroy, care, hate, hold a grudge, and let things go. But because we're always changing, doesn't that mean we can go back to where we came from? Well yeah. It is possible to go back from designing the next Eiffel Tower to making a Lego tower.
But then back to the song. What's it about? Two people. One of them trying to convince the other to not commit suicide. What leads someone to suicide? Truthfully, I don't really know. I won't even pretend. But I'm pretty sure it's something big in their life, or a bunch of small things that add up to one big monster. They are in their cave with it, and with every new burden they get pushed back further by the dragon. And yeah, with help, they can get out. They're still changing and can adapt to overcome it.
But just because we're changing doesn't mean that it's always for the better. Sometimes that's what can drive them over the edge.
And it isn't just one straight line that you go back and forth on. It's not even really a path. It's a field, with maybe one way that looks pretty clear. But just because it looks kind of like a path doesn't mean that it is one. You can get lost, or deviate. And sometimes, when you get lost, you just can't find where you came from. Sometimes you don't want to. And even with help, you can't go back. Not if no one knew your starting point to begin with. Sometimes, you're going to go into the forest. And sometimes, you're not going to come back out.
So no. Sure, there are times where you can get past it, where you can drag yourself out of the hole. But even when that happens, it will be too late. You won't be able to go back to the happy, carefree life you had before. Because we change in different ways. We don't lose what we've learned and what we've felt, we add on to it. Because we're always changing, there's no going back.
There are no true never too lates.
So perhaps you have read Fang (the Maximum Ride book, not the Maximum Ride character). And if you have, you have likely read the hilarious questions in the back of the book, one of which being:
Do you think it's not too late, it's never too late?
And like a few other questions (Do you wear your sunglasses at night?) it referred to a song, though I didn't know this at the time. So after going on Pandora and typing in Seether or Three Days Grace the song that it referred to came up. (Never Too Late) After listening to it, I decided I liked it and therefore got it. And after listening to the song I got a few of my thoughts straight, including my answer to the question.
So do I think it's not too late, it's never too late?
No.
But only to a point.
Yes, I'm the one that loves happy endings, that tries to be an optimist, to find the silver lining in every bad situation, that wants all of my characters to grow up and get past all of the obstacles that I put in their way. Yet my answer to this might say differently.
You see, we all change. I mean we start out as babies unable to do much aside from babble and eat and sleep and cry, but then we learn. We learn how to speak, read, add, make, destroy, care, hate, hold a grudge, and let things go. But because we're always changing, doesn't that mean we can go back to where we came from? Well yeah. It is possible to go back from designing the next Eiffel Tower to making a Lego tower.
But then back to the song. What's it about? Two people. One of them trying to convince the other to not commit suicide. What leads someone to suicide? Truthfully, I don't really know. I won't even pretend. But I'm pretty sure it's something big in their life, or a bunch of small things that add up to one big monster. They are in their cave with it, and with every new burden they get pushed back further by the dragon. And yeah, with help, they can get out. They're still changing and can adapt to overcome it.
But just because we're changing doesn't mean that it's always for the better. Sometimes that's what can drive them over the edge.
And it isn't just one straight line that you go back and forth on. It's not even really a path. It's a field, with maybe one way that looks pretty clear. But just because it looks kind of like a path doesn't mean that it is one. You can get lost, or deviate. And sometimes, when you get lost, you just can't find where you came from. Sometimes you don't want to. And even with help, you can't go back. Not if no one knew your starting point to begin with. Sometimes, you're going to go into the forest. And sometimes, you're not going to come back out.
So no. Sure, there are times where you can get past it, where you can drag yourself out of the hole. But even when that happens, it will be too late. You won't be able to go back to the happy, carefree life you had before. Because we change in different ways. We don't lose what we've learned and what we've felt, we add on to it. Because we're always changing, there's no going back.
There are no true never too lates.