There are two days in every week which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is YESTERDAY with all 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 forever.
The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW. Tomorrow with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its 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 to be born.
This leaves only one day: TODAY. Any person should fight only the battle of one day. It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities YESTERDAY and TOMORROW that we break down. It is not the experience of TODAY which drives a person to the brink of insanity; it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow will bring.
Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time. And while we are doing it, let us not forget to pause and smell the scent of a flower, the majesty of a dragonfly, the mystery of the caterpillar and the beauty of a butterfly...
One of these days is YESTERDAY with all 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 forever.
The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW. Tomorrow with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its 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 to be born.
This leaves only one day: TODAY. Any person should fight only the battle of one day. It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities YESTERDAY and TOMORROW that we break down. It is not the experience of TODAY which drives a person to the brink of insanity; it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow will bring.
Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time. And while we are doing it, let us not forget to pause and smell the scent of a flower, the majesty of a dragonfly, the mystery of the caterpillar and the beauty of a butterfly...
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