In your life you’re going to meet lots of folks who will tell you they is saving money for this or that, are waiting for some old folks to die so they gets their money, land, or cattle. Then there is the young bucks who want to have a new pick-em-up-truck so they can ask out their true love. They are going to see if it rains next spring so they can borrow money to buy a yearling so they can graze them during the summer and pay down on a nice grave marker that says "Father" on one side and "Mother" on the other—and they ain’t been married up even once yet.

These same folks start to say about twenty years old: "If I had just…or, if I had just known…" and gives lots of follow up reasons.

Every cool one you miss, every fair lady you don’t talk to, maybe even steal a kiss—if she’s got a mind for you to—is gone forever. If you keep your nose to the grindstone all you’re going to get is a sore nose. Looking down to find pennies on a sidewalk you’ll get runned over at the corner cause you ain’t going to see that dump truck full of gold.

Now, I ain’t saying to go jump out of a perfectly good airplane just to sky dive, nor to do bungie jumping to get your kicks. Try a cowboy beer joint on Saturday night—you can pick your adventure—from fair ladies too smart for you, to friendly knuckle massage out in back—but at least do something. Try to learn a new trick each and every day—even if it hurts some.

Some things are worth waiting on, some—like a future ex-wife or dutchoven biscuits a-cooking; but girls, if you wait to do something too far in the future you may not be there when it happens—if it do.