## There's no deadline for life > There’s no deadline for life. None for getting married, having kids, becoming financially stable, getting a job, or finding your path in life. Life unfolds in ways we can’t predict, moving at a pace that is uniquely our own. I hope you allow yourself to live fully and freely, without the weight of time pressing down on you. Without the fear that you’re too late, that you’ve missed your chance at love, stability, or purpose. I hope you never believe that your life is confined to a script written by a society that has been wrong about so much. Society clings to timelines, to expectations, to the idea that certain things must happen by a certain age, but life has never worked that way. Some things come early, some take longer, and some arrive in ways you never saw coming. There is no single path, no perfect timing, no rulebook that decides when your life truly begins. So I hope you let go of the pressure, the comparisons, the fear that you’re not where you’re supposed to be. You are. And life is still unfolding in ways you can’t yet see. > -- Moses Kuria The only deadline for life is quite literally the "dead" line -- your death. And that is arguably the only deadline that will matter and that you should think about. This single deadline should be enough. Knowing your time is finite should drive everything you do. You shouldn't need anyone to tell you when to start, when to finish, when to care. A life without a deadline has no meaning. You only need this one deadline to live a good life. All the rest are arbitrary and fake. --- ## Deadlines are (supposed to be) dead I am somewhat sick of deadlines and dealine extensions. A deadline is supposed to be "dead" -- fixed, immobile, final so that it provides a sense of structure and control for our progress. The source is a confusion between DO date with DUE date. **DO date:** When you plan to work on something -- the date you plan into your Todo list or calendar **DUE date:** The absolute latest it can be finished -- don't matter if already finished on DO date. **The Do date should always precedes the DUE date by a reasonable amount of time.** We set two different dates for a task because you might not be able to finish it on the DO date due to all kinds of reasons. We know we may not finish the task on the DO date, so we set a latest DUE date. A moving deadline doesn't make sense from the start. A deadline should be planned with the sacredness and commitment to never move it no matter what. ## You shouldn't need deadlines at all Our struggle with deadlines are a symptom of a deeper problem. In a perfect world, you wouldn't need them. You'd work on things because they matter to you. One task would flow naturally into the next, pulled forward by genuine desire, not pushed by artificial pressure. When you truly want something, you don't need a deadline. You just do it. You stay up late. You wake up early. It's the first thing you think about when you wakeup and the last thought when you sleep. We invented artificial tools called deadlines because we lack motivation. Schoolwork, for example, has to be ensured by deadlines because teachers know students would not do them on their own, because they don't care enough or find meaning in them. The most pathetic thing that could possibly happen to your life is that you have to set deadlines for yourself to get things done. Most people don't realize this is abnormal. ## Problem, Tool, and Misuse of Tool Wo create a tool for a problem, but now we are not even using that tool properly, let alone solve the real problem. Again, your life has no deadline besides your death. All the efforts you put in and all the things you do should be driven by that single motivation to make a good living. Deadlines themselves are pointless, but they are acceptable. Pushing deadlines are nothing but pointless. Instead of crying for deadline extensions, ask yourself what is it that you are doing with your life, and what do you truly wants.