The sun sets on another day…
Sunset was a wonderful assortment of colors and more. As the sky lit up the scattered clouds became beacons of light shattering the sky and pushing aside the oncoming Darkness. It was spectacular.
I talk about 29,000 sunsets a lot. I don’t have any ads on the site and I don’t try to snag people into spending a lot of money or really any money at all. I may add a donate button and I may create something a little sideways with links pointing to my other sites but the goal is still the same, to try desperately to get people to pay attention to today.
I have said it many times but will reiterate today that you shouldn’t whine about the past, pine about the future, but instead define yourself everyday and in doing so create the best day that you can have. All too often that seems difficult for so many.
There have been many who have said the future is not set. Charles Dickens even noted such in his classic “A Christmas Carol”. If a man changes so does his outcome. It is with that in mind that I am spending today trying to give the reasons for this site again. We do not have unlimited time, nor do we have a defined time that we will be on this Earth. Spending time worrying about what has happened or what will happen takes away from the base person that we are. I am not saying to abandon your retirement plan but I am saying that maybe you need to enjoy every day all you can before you put all your eggs in the retirement basket. I am not saying forget about the people in your past and the things you have learned, I am saying that sometimes what we are going through now is far more important than what we went through back then.
The reality is we spend our days and we make a choice of whether to enjoy them. Why have a bad day when there are so many other possibilities that are far more fun? I know it’s sometimes not easy. Over the last year I have lost a lot of people. Sometimes in the morning I consider those that I have lost and many that have come before but I feel I owe it to them to overcome the urge to obsess. I feel I owe it to them to live a good life and not just a life.
There is a lot to this and probably more. If only we would take a minute and just step back and realize that the negativity we surround ourselves with has an effect on our life and pining or whining about the past or future only keeps us from defining a better present.
So as the sun sets on another day, take a step and push yourself into something a little better. Find a path that makes you happy. Use your past and pick out the happy times to find more of them. Put your future in perspective and in doing so define your days knowing the future may come but today is already here. Be who you are and maybe enjoy yourself along the way, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and be the reason to be better..