Life Expectancy

We all have a limited amount of time on this planet. You can even visit a site which when given some personal details will extrapolate your own life expectancy (which can yield some quite dull results when you pretend to be an alien being).
Expecting Life, however is a far different statement and of far higher concern to us average folk. Many of us spend a lot of time expectantly waiting for our lives to happen, thus nullifying any concern for our actual life expectancy. Why worry about when you are going to die when your life has not even begun.
Now far be it from me to pop-psych us all, nahh screw it - i'm gonna give it a shot anyway. The dichotomy behind this frame of thought is as such - the fact that we can die having done anything or we can live having done nothing - what i like to call 'nihilist potential'. We can potentially do anything - why we do not is where it gets more complex. Everybody has a different reason for not yet having composed that magnificent opus, penned that genre changing graphic novel, painted that new movement into existence, written ourselves into literary history or even kicked the winning goal for Liverpool in a Soccer World Cup. 'I'm a procrastinator', 'I had a bad childhood', 'I'm in a research phase', 'I was struck down by leprosy in my prime', all of which are quite valid amongst the myriad of reasons for not doing what it is that we know we should be doing. It is the sheer variety of reasons which prevents them from being the core principle that prevents us from achieving our infinite potential.
A fear of death is hammered into us from birth - it is a part of our culture. Death follows Life. Thus if we live just bellow the full potential of our lives, filling it with mindless distraction - of which there is a greater myriad than even for just 'not doing' - we can at least avoid the conscious possibility of our own inevitable death. Just simply not living is a far more attractive proposition than waiting to die. We live our lives expecting life and when (or if for some) we do achieve the life we had hoped for all that time, we switch to watching our extremely fearful life expectancy. In the end we fear our 'potential' as much as we long for its achievement. Our fear of death stops us from doing anything - how does that make any sense?
Now it is time for me avoid freemassonary conspiracy theories of mass mind control and instead move on to a more positive conclusion to this diatribe. It is also a time to compress the core principles of what i have been rambling about. Life is finite, potential is infinite and as such you have a short amount of time to do anything. Why don't i just go do that?