First Day or Last Day of Your Life?
How best can you optimize your day today? There’s one school of thought that suggests you view today as the first day of the rest of your life. With a clean slate and no past regrets, worries, or angst you can move forward unencumbered with the garbage of your yesterdays.
Truly, releasing any energy on the past enables us to gather our thoughts, feelings and actions to make this day the best day of our life. Not a goal to be sneezed at!
Still, there’s the school of thought that says to look at today as the last day of your life, for it may well be. And if it were the last day, what would you want to spend it doing? Who would you want to spend it with? What words would you want to say?
What are you waiting for?
With either choice, the quality of the day would be improved. So we can focus on the gratitude for what we are able to accept this day. And we can take action on the creative ideas that come from looking forward. we are blessed either way!
Or we can view our life so far with all of its gifts received (if not yet acknowledged!) and know that we have this day. We can make amends, acknowledge the gifts, share our feelings and gratitude with loved ones. We can then accept the peace that comes from knowing that we have had the blessings of life-having lived, having loved, and having had something to contribute, whatever it may have been.
So…
Take this day, make your choice, and live your life, fully, richly, peacefully, and lovingly. Either choice is better than no choice and just going through the day unaware.
It’s all up to you!