Day Without Worry

Life has ups and downs. We face good days and bad days in our life. We surely have at least a day without fear and worry, or even two days a week. What days are these?

One of the two days is Yesterday. We should have neither fear nor worry about yesterday, because it has passed forever beyond our control. In reality, we cannot bring back yesterday, we cannot undo a single act we performed and we cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, because it is also beyond our immediate control and has not come yet. 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”. It is said, “Any person can fight the battle of just one day”. It is when we add the burdens of those two awful days, 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 here now in the present moment.

Yesterday is gone forever,
Tomorrow hasn’t come yet,
Today is only the day we have and it is beautiful.