Monday, 10 December 2012

The Monday Muse

Two Days We Should Not Worry 

Author Unknown  







I thought today we might need to take a breather from the 'Festive Fever' (so many jobs on my to do list, I don't know where to start!). I'm trying to learn to live in the moment, not one of my natural talents I must admit. I hope these words and my picture of two hand gliders out to sea, that I took off our beautiful coast one Boxing Day will help you accomplish a calmer moment - "float like a butterfly...."


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 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 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 splendour 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 can fight the battle of just 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 that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.



Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time.





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