DO you always count the days up to the next legal holiday without being on duty? Or do you start as early as September longing for Christmas? And do you wish the weeks or months to hopefully pass by like an assault up to the next possible salary increase?
Many times we are really in too much of a hurry while feeling uncomfortable if we notice how time flies. We have no time for someone or something, or even for ourselves.
The quote “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” was said by Albert Einstein (Bio / Quotes). Albert Einstein was a German physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.
One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. I love the thoughts of author Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015).
When I was still a teenager, I was longing for the time to be a grown up already. Later, I enjoyed listening to my grandmother’s stories such as “Once Upon A Time” or “When I Was Young” from her “yesterday’s life”.
After a couple of years, especially while observing that time really flies like a rocket to the moon, I always have the same question in my mind: Are the present hours and days less valuable?
Learning from yesterday means correcting your mistakes you did yesterday and doing it again. Live from today means don’t make those mistakes today. Hope for tomorrow means if you learn from the past your future will be bright.
Is life in the future easier, nicer, more charming and more fulfilling compared to the present? Many of us retreat into the past and forget their present existence. A possible topsy-turvy world of a golden youth tries to let us forget that also the past have had its share of disappointments, pains, tears, darkness, as well as desperate days. Dreamy and sleepy days – yes, lost days, irretrievable time.
I am glad and happy being able to live a wonderful life as an expatriate here in the Philippines since 1999 – together with my family and some very good friends. It hasn’t been easy during the first years. Now we stand on our own feet, because we worked hard and adjusted very well.
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