Well, I hate to say it, but I think my high school days are well and truly behind me. As I write this blog post, I just finished my last official FFA contest. All those long nights studying, practicing and crying over contest season, my time has finally come to an end. As I look back on my experiences, I can’t help but wish I had done more with my time. All the different contests, events, and experiences I missed all because I was too scared to take the chance. I could have done so much more; I could have met people and made memories that would last a lifetime, but I didn’t. My time in high school has come and gone, and there is no going back. 

Maybe you’ve felt the same way I’m feeling right now – like you could have done more, but now the chance is gone. It’s in moments like these, though, that I think about a quote I once heard, “The best time to plant an apple tree was 20 years ago, but the second-best time is today.” For all of us, it is easy to look back at that opportunity you missed or the chance you didn’t take and say you should have done more. The hard part is to look at what you can do today. To use the time you have right now is the most difficult thing to do. 

We all should have planted our apple trees when we had the chance. Let’s do the one thing we can do and choose to plant our apple trees right now.