Late

She runs and runs never looking back, trying to give her strength in each step she has to take, her breath started to be shorter and her knees started to get weaker, yet she can't afford standing for a second to hold her breath, as she rushing over and each step she knows she is getting closer, she gets weaker. " One more step" she tells herself over and over again, until she reached the spot as finally she put her foot on it and now she can catch up her breath, "You are late, I am afraid" her knees couldn't hold anymore, she fell on the ground as she was totally out of breath. She didn't know if the point is because she needs to catch her breath or is it because those words stricken her heart.

"You are late", words that scare us in a way or another, late for an important meeting or a job interview that can decide your future, late in catching the first moment your child comes to life, late in saying sorry for a person you may won't be able to get a chance to see again, late in reaching your feelings out to someone that already been taken, or late in saying goodbye for one last time.

When you look into your life for sure you encountered few of being late and if you looked further I am sure you are scared to encounter few of being late. As late scares us in whatsoever, phrases like "it is never too late" or " better late than never" started to rise to calm us down and give us hope. As I totally agree that some kid of lates can be better than never and also in love with it is never too late, yet those latest that you can actually use those phrases in are not lates. It's like, it just got delayed; "it is never too late" like a doctor opened a cooking business or "it is better late than never" like just delayed the apology until she got the courage to do so. I belive that those lates should not scare us because we can stand for it and remember it is not late it is just got delayed.

Late is late, because of being late it changed the course of life, you missed a moment that can never be returned, it is simply just passed by you. So I am sorry to inform you that late is scary so be aware of what late holds for you. Do everything you can to be on time, don't say tomorrow, don't say later, just count each moment so you won't encounter those scary lates.

As we live in our busy lives we tend to forget that some lates are important and we may regret like sharing love to that special person, thanking your parents for raising you well, helping a friend that needed you the most, or turn back to the person standing behind and say "I am sorry, thank you, and I love you" before you go since it can be one of the biggest lates.

Live, care, and do your best for not being late, give all, say all and make sure nothing is left. Yes some moments can be better late than never yet there are moments are scarier and you wouldn't be able to take your breath as you feel the numbness in your knees because it is simply LATE.

Reviews

[light and ashes]

A very poignant write...................
I am still wondering what she was late for, but I enjoyed it none the less.. great work.