That day, he was excited and said: "Or should I go to Da Lat to live for a year?". She immediately imagined the houses on the gentle slopes, the stairs of the night market and the romantic feeling of walking along Xuan Huong Lake, so she nodded immediately. But then he remembered the unfinished project, she remembered the cat that no one had looked at, and the two agreed "let it be another time".
The life of him and her passed with busy mornings and tiring evenings just enough to not want to think anymore. The plan to open a small coffee shop, where he and her chose music, was turned into a plan... to change seats in the current shop to get less bored. The plan to learn a new foreign language stopped at downloading the application to the machine, placing the icon on the main screen, and then looking at it every day as a silent reminder of my lack of decisiveness.
She explained: "As humans, everyone wants to choose a safe option". Safety is staying in the same place, doing familiar things, making love in a way that does not need to change. But safety also makes us age very quickly in things that have never happened before. Every time she surfs social networks, seeing someone quit their job to travel or switch careers at the age of thirty, she sighs: "That's really good.
There are evenings when they talk about "if". If that day they were a little bolder. If they didn't think too much. If they believed they were capable of handling things. Those "if" sentences sound very philosophical, but in fact they are just a different way of saying not daring to start. And the funny thing is that everyone knows that, but no one is in a hurry to correct it.
In the end, the question remains: Are the plans never implemented due to fate or human nature? Perhaps both, but the "human nature" accounts for the overwhelming proportion. Fate, if any, usually only opens the door. Whether to step in or not, is still up to you, her, and each of us.
And who knows, one day, he or she will be more decisive than usual, just starting from the first steps. Because in the end, the most frightening thing is not doing wrong, but living a lifetime with very right plans, but never happening.
