“If I Only Knew Then…”

“You ruined my life! I haven’t lived! I never lived! Thank to you I destroyed the best years of my life!…My life is over. I’m talented, I’m smart…If I’d had a normal adulthood I could’ve been a Schopenhauer or a Dostoyevsky.” -Vanya speaking to Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Annie Baker translation)

“If I only knew then what I know now I woulda…”

Okay fine. Maybe you blew it. Maybe you should have worked harder or made a different decision or chose a different path or whatever.

Or maybe you just got a bad break.

But either way, that was about one particular thing. One moment in time.

Don’t let that define the rest of your life.

Instead, use what you know now to go kick ass at the next thing.

It’s never too late.

Go make your art.