"None of us has much time"

I watched a movie (Synecdoche, New York) with a couple of people tonight and this quote really spoke to the mild recluse in me who sometimes needs life to come to me. I've posted it on a wall in my room to try to steer me away from that tendency, especially while I'm in South Africa.

And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right.

Ok, the quote in context doesn't exactly speak to what I mentioned above, but I think you can interpret it that way if you want to. So... I'm going to try to go out and do something outside my comfort zone this week, and I encourage you to do the same. What time is better than the here and now? Riddle me that.