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If you wait for your life to get as romantic as those cheap paperbacks, one day you'll wake up too old to appreciate the beautiful reality that is there for you.
Disclaimer:
You'll never too old, I know. Segovia learned to play the guitar at 50, etc. But for a woman, if she wants to have kids, she'd better get realistic about partners by age 30 or so, just as an example.
The point is, don't waste your life waiting for the impossible. It IS possible to wake up and realize you've wasted decades you can not get back when you could have been savoring life and making the most of it instead of waiting for an impossible fantasy.
