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We live in the present with a mindset we will automatically have tomorrow. We convince ourselves for sanity reasons we will wake up to another day.
We appreciate the fact of a Groundhog Day type of life where each day is constant, consistent, and the same.
I am not saying that this is necessarily bad. Routine is important. Being comfortable in our daily actions is important.
But, stop and look around you.
However, when we pull the blinders off we realize that this living is not really what everyone experiences.
Someone passes away in their sleep.
Someone loses a loved one in a car accident.
Someone is diagnosed with cancer.
A couple discovers they will be parents in 9 months.
A person becomes engaged.
A child earns a driving license.
A child heads off to college.
A new job opportunity provides a next chapter in the lives of a person or family.
The list can go on and on to remind us we simple have no guarantee for a calm tomorrow.
Why do we then sit idle waiting for tomorrow? Why do we wait for “one day“ knowing darn well it will never arrive?
What do we have to lose by starting today?
It is that voice in our head. It is best captured by the lyrics from a song by The Moth and…
