Tuesday 31 December 2013

1.1 YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW


There are two days in every week about which we should not worry.
          These two days 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 we should not worry about is “tomorrow”.
            With its possible adversities, its burdens, 
            Its large promise and poor performance.
            Tomorrow is 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 not yet born.


            This just leaves only one day . . . “Today”.
            Any person can fight the battles of just one day.
            It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternity's -
            Yesterday and tomorrow those 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.



Ponder points

I am better than I was yesterday, but not as good as I will be tomorrow. Don't ponder over things of yesterday, its already gone. At least Today, Now, in the present I can make a change, I can amend the wrongs I made, I can start to build that bridge. Every day, I chose to live for today - Tendai Marjory



We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer





***This is an extract from my book "A Hope for Tomorrow"  ***


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