The Time to Start Living is NOW!

 Now Is It...

Mozart: the wonder kid

At age five, he wrote an advanced concerto for the harpsichord. Before he was ten, he had published several violin sonatas and was playing the best of Handle and Bach from memory. Soon after his twelfth birthday, he composed and conducted his first opera. He was awarded an honorary appointment as concert–master with the Salzburg Symphony Orchestra and within a few years, was hailed as the pride of Salzburg. 

W. A. Mozart

When he died at the age of thirty-five, he had written forty- eight symphonies, forty-seven arias, duets, and quartets with orchestral accompaniment, and more than a dozen operas. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus Theophilus Mozart is credited with some 600 original compositions in all!

Fritz Kreisler: Do it!

Some of us still want to live as if we have all the time in the world. We wish to do certain things, but the problem is that it will forever remain a wish. A woman rushed up to violinist Fritz Kreisler after a concert and gushed, “Oh, I would give my life to play as you do!” He answered soberly, “That’s exactly what I did.” Fritz Kreisler could be that good because he committed everything he has to his passion. If people would spend as much time taking action as they do thinking about how they can avoid taking action, they’d be twice as productive in half the time.

Don’t let age keep you from taking action. Victor Hugo wrote his first tragedy at age 15. John de Medecci was 15 when he became a cardinal! Raphael painted his masterpieces before he died at age 37. Tennyson wrote his first volume of poetry at age 18. Pascal wrote his great works between the ages of 16 and his death at 37. Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. Newton formulated the law of gravitation at age 24, and Westinghouse invented the air brake at age 23. Dickens was 24 when he wrote Pickwick and 25 when he wrote Oliver Twist. Joan of Arc did her work and was burned at the stake at 19. Romulus founded Rome at 20. Calvin joined the Reformation at age 21 and wrote his famous Institutes at age 27. Alexander the Great had conquered his world by the time he was 23.

Age had nothing to do with the genius of these great people. They merely took full responsibility of their God-given gifts and wasted no time as they maximized every opportunity to its fullest potential. Even at old age, men still take action. Colonel Sanders opened his fast food joint at the age of 56 and still became a multi- millionaire. The time is now.

Life is short, and the things we want to do must be done without delay. The average lifetime is approximately 3 score and 10 (70 years), so says the Holy book. That’s a little less than 25, 6oo days. It will take some time to grow up, so by the time you are 20, you will have about 18, 250 days remaining. When you are 30, there are 14,600 days left to accomplish your goals. At 40, the balance has decreased to about 11,000 days. By 50, you are down to 7,300. And at 60, only 3,650 are left. I’m not ignoring the fact that many people live well beyond 70, or that much can be accomplished after that age, but NOW is it.

Shalom!

 Written by Uju Onyechere.


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