You 're moments late to literally everything . You watch busses pull away as you run behind them , girls get asked out as you walk up to them , and you have never caught a green light . One day though , you arrive on time . [ WP ]

All throughout my life, I had been unlucky. My mom told me how the doctors predicted for me to be born on July 4, just in time for Independence Day. I was born on August 24, almost two months late. 
 
 The rest of my life seemed to follow this initial failure of mine. On my first say of school, I got sick with strep throat and had to stay home for a week. Every youth soccer game was a half hour spent being yelled at by the coach for being late and the other half finally getting to play. 
 
 Traffic always suddenly worsens, lights stay red longer than they should, someone takes too long or my alarm fails to go off—either way, something happens and I always end up late. I once had an exam in college that required I be there on time or fail the class. I planned a month ahead, triple checking bus schedules, construction schedules, timing traffic lights, analyzing traffic patterns, measuring the quality of sidewalks, all manner of information just to make sure I was n't late for once. 
 
 The day of the exam? The bus was running late and I missed my exam. 
 
 Everything up until now has been a mess of failure and inability to achieve punctuality. I once heard how in some cultures, punctuality is optional; when someone says let's meet at 4, anywhere between thirty minutes before to two hours after is okay. I dreamed of being in that kind of place, where my lack of punctuality would be fine. 
 
 I guess I did get something in the end to claim I was punctual for. Throughout it all, from birth to school to the altar, I was late for everything you could possibly delay or miss or take a bit too long to do. Now I've reached the one thing you ca n't delay, the one thing that touches us all, punctual or late alike. We all meet this time in our end, and we have no time left after it to reschedule it to. At last, I am on time. And I'm afraid I wo n't be around to try again afterwards.
