Now or Never

Now or Never

M. Zakyuddin Munziri

M. Zakyuddin Munziri

@zakiego

Originally written in Bahasa Indonesia.

Look at your phone now, look at the date and time including the seconds.

When will that exact date, time, and second ever come again?


When I truly want something, I chase it, I work for it. Until I've exhausted every possibility. But still failed.

I have no regrets.

I have no regrets because it means that thing was never meant to be part of my life's journey. Regret would only come if I stopped halfway, when I hadn't truly known. Perhaps, just one step ahead, that thing could have been mine. Perhaps.

Opportunities rarely come twice.

Chase it now until it's 'finished' or not at all.

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