“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To write it on your heart is a pledge. To take an oath. To commit. And once committed, to own it. So let me ask you: “Where is the sense in holding in, holding on or holding out?” There can never be an inkling of thought granted to waiting for the “right moment”. For once you do, it is a lock that it will have already passed.
Fretting over what might have been or might be is a waste of energy, effort and time. It takes you out of where you are now: today. Consigning your thoughts, words and deeds to “enduring” the so-called “fates” or embracing “conventional wisdom” can only lead you astray. Right down a path where things will undoubtedly happen to you. When in fact, you should always be the one happening to things.
Give some serious consideration to what Mr. Emerson proposes. Every day can be the best day of the year. And if you do live it right – they should be. One right after the other.
So write it on your heart.
Bind yourself to that oath to own each and every one of them. Pledge your sacred honor to make this day the best.
But just until the next one.
...my temporary assignment. 