One Apple A Day #106
Note: Today exercise is about appreciation. Sometimes we are so fixed on what we want to achieve that we forget to appreciate our progress in the journey. I’ve been writing almost daily for a while now. Did I improve? To check this, I went back to my first post, and I rewrote it. Does it look better to you?
Time is a great equaliser. It just flows. It doesn’t care about me, you or anyone else. One second after the other, it moves forward without waiting for anyone.
Everyone would like to control time. There are over 7000 books in the category “Time Management” on Amazon.
The reality is that we can’t control time. Time flows, and that’s it.
Every 60 minutes one hour is gone. Every 24 hours a day is gone. And so on.
In its flowing, time doesn’t care what we do or don’t do, what we achieve or fail to achieve. Win or lose. Use it or waste it. It’s the same. If you think you can manage time, you’re a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:
“Finish every day and be done with it. (…) tomorrow is a new day; (…) This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
Live with it. Time won’t wait for you. What happened is history. Learn to let it go. Don’t waste your energy trying to fix the past. You can’t. What you will get is only a heavy load to carry in your present. It will slow you down.
What you can do is to learn from yesterday and decide how you want to live today. This way your past will never be a waste.
And the greatest relief is that today, like yesterday will last 24 hours too. 24 hours and also today will be gone.
I find this thought liberating. Whatever I will do, today is going to end and tomorrow will come.
I’ll do my best in this 24 hours and, no matter my achievements, tomorrow will be a new day, a new start.
Yesterday is the ground on which you are walking today.
If you build a better ground today, tomorrow you will walk faster and steadier.
And if you want to walk further, be sure you’re not carrying the weight of your past with you.
Let it go.