The Present
When you think you’re dying, you look back on your life and realize one of two things: either you’re ready, or you’re not. Most likely, you’re not. In fear and regret, you say to yourself, "I’ve been given life, I’ve been given time, I’ve been given more blessings than I could count, but what did I do with them? Nothing. Just nothing”. You remember all the things you wanted to do but didn’t, and you only have yourself to blame, but you know blame doesn’t matter anymore.
Another chance is the only hope you can see, so you ask for it, and keep asking, and asking, until you realize you’re not afraid of death, but afraid of a life of nothing. A life with goals unachieved, a life with journeys unstarted, a life that in itself is your biggest fear. So you keep asking, asking until you’re exhausted, but can’t trust closing your eyes to sleep...
The truth I want to tell you is this: even with all this talk of life, time, and death, you’ll only feel a momentary surge of emotions, fleeting as the wind. Even if I tell you that your time is now, your chance is now, the only guarantee you have to do your best is only now— it won’t make a difference. The only way for you to be capable of making a difference is to understand how human actions are made, how the future you want is brought into being, how your body as a tool manifests your will. This is what I will help you understand next, for I am your "friend".