If You Wait Long Enough, The Heart Will Suffer

These were the words if my attending today. Of course, here he was talking about the literal heart in the context of cardiorenal syndrome (specifically type 4, which is technically more of a renocardiac syndrome), but it kinda hit me hard on a figurative heart level. Recently (but also chronically) I feel like I put off doing things that move me in the direction I want to go with my career, my relationships, and my life in general, often for the sake of more transient things. And over time, that “lost” time weighs on me more and more as the dreams I had for myself become more distant, and that hurts my heart a bit, ya know?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with my life overall right now. I love the work that I do and I feel lucky to have so many good and fulfilling personal and professional relationships, there’s just a part of me that feels like I could and should be doing more, not sure for myself, but for the people I care about and for my community (locally and globally). But if I keep holding off on working towards the things that I think I have to offer this world, I may well go into acute heart failure which as we know requires some diuresis (of like ideas, as in I need to do the things [or maybe forget about some] so that they don’t just build up inside me).

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