Today is tomorrow’s yesterday…
What we do today will either enhance or diminish our future present moments. But most people put things off until tomorrow. We thoughtlessly forgo exercise and education, go into debt, and justify negative relationships.
But at some point, it all catches up. Like an airplane off-course, the longer we wait to correct it the longer and harder it is to get back on course.
Have you read this before?
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry. Two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone.
The other day that we should not worry about is tomorrow with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.
This leaves only one day…today. Anyone can fight the battles of just one day; it is only when we add the burdens of those two awful eternities – yesterday and tomorrow – that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives people mad. It is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore live but one day at a time. ~Author unknown~
We need to embrace all the moments we are given:
- We get to anticipate the experiences we want to have (which is often more enjoyable than the experiences themselves).
- We get to have the experience we long for.
- And then we get to remember and carry those experiences with us forever.
Today is our bridge from yesterday to tomorrow. To put it another way, it is our bridge from what we can’t change to what we can. There are 86,400 seconds in our life today. Once the clock strikes midnight today is gone, never to return.
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Very wise words!! When I was young, I used to say to my mother: “I’ll do it tomorrow.” She would respond with: “Tomorrow never comes.” Of course that only made me madder cause I didn’t understand it. As the years went by, I did understand and realized what a wise mother I had. Later on in my studies, I came across the phrase: Now is our moment of power. It’s very difficult to live by that simple philosophy but I keep working at it.