Waiting for the Sun

About a year and a half ago Deb and I visited London for a few days. I worked in London for a short time and had some experience in the city but it was all new for Deb and mostly new for me from a tourist perspective. The thing about visiting London is it typically rains close to half of the days every month so you have a choice to make. You either plan a very flexible schedule and spend a lot of time inside waiting for the sun to come out or you have to be willing to get wet. So if you are like us and only have a couple days and really want to see and enjoy the city you are going to get wet (in our case very wet).

Life is a lot like visiting London and you have a choice to make. You can either spend your life waiting (waiting for just the right opportunities, waiting for all the problems to work themselves out, waiting for your next promotion or raise, waiting for a better deal, waiting for just the right timing) or you can choose to get wet.

Unfortunately too many of us choose to wait for the sun to come out and end up missing life. That is what happened to us after Connor was born. We put our life on hold, waiting for him to get off the ventilator and get better so we could get on with our plans and his childhood. At first it was just going to be a couple months, then a year, then when they told us maybe two years. We finally stopped, took a step back and re-evaluated. The sun was not going to come out for a long time so we had a choice to make. Either keep missing life and our son's childhood or get a little wet. Thankfully we chose to get wet (and we got very wet).

What you learn after awhile is that going out in the rain is only uncomfortable for the first couple of minutes. Once you are wet, you are wet. It doesn't really get any worse over time and before you know it you are having fun.

So what are you waiting for?