You’re not waiting for life to start. This is it. The waiting room is the building.

Waiting is a habit that renews itself. School becomes university becomes a proper job becomes the point where things finally begin, and the arrangement can continue for decades while the actual days go by unnoticed. Nothing is being held back for later. The Tuesday you are in is made of the same material as the future you are saving for.

Pick one thing you have been postponing until life is properly underway and do a small version of it now. Learn the first bit, make the call, go to the thing on Saturday. Treat this stretch as the real one, because it is the only one you are in.