If not now then when?

OK sorry, I've had one of my epiphany weeks, I'll be back to shoes and hair in no time :o)

I don't know about anyone else, but I've found as a re-occurring pattern with my passions and dreams that I've always put them off until "The next step". 

"Oh I'm too busy with my degree now, I'll take music lessons when I graduate"

"Oh my PhD takes up too much time, I'll learn to speak Spanish properly once I've finished"

It just occurred to me (and this really isn't groundbreaking) that at the age of nearly 25, I'm always going to be too busy.

While I would love to be a pampered housewife (not saying that all housewives are pampered with lots of spare time, I'm just living the Gabrielle Solis fantasy) with buckets of time for volunteering, painting and reading the works of Satre, there isn't a queue of rich (and devilishly handsome) men at my door.

What's the point in having the passion if it doesn't translate into something? There are things I want to learn now, charities I want to work for now and a God to get to know better now.

So why don't I just make the time and get on and do some of it now?
because you're writing a phd.....??
Indeed, you are writing a PhD, but I think the same thing quite a lot, if only I wait until I've finished something, then realise there are many more things that I want to finish.  Chances are, once you've finished your PhD and got a full time job, you still won't have the time, and might even have less time than you have now.

I think in all of these things it is about somehow making time, by being more organised and removing the faff factor, which has been an all too prevalent part of my life.  If, for example, you really want to learn Spanish, then you could set aside a certain time each week when you work on that, and then be strict about it.  Easier said than done, I know, but it is worth a try.  This last sentence I might just as well be saying to myself.

I, for one, keep feeling that there is a "next step" just around the corner, but I am still searching for what it is.

Sorry, can't help you with the rich, devilishly handsome man bit.
why don't you write a list of 30 things to do before you're 30?
I have taken action! I've sent in an application form for the thing I really want to do :o)
what is the thing you really want to do? tell all.....