Something happened last night. You were sleeping. Perhaps you were awake and pondering life’s uncertainties? Maybe you were in the ER waiting for news? Could you have been driving down the road of despair? We all were in different places, experiencing a moment of life completely separate and apart from each other. But it happened all the same.
The sun rose. Dawn happened. The light came up and forced back the darkness. And now each of us… all of us… every last one of us, faces a new day. Whether you roll out of bed and curl your toes on fresh, clean carpet… or if you stand drenched in rain as an outcast in the world’s gutter… we all get a new day.
What is a new day? Hope. Opportunity. Wounds will scab over. Spoken words will sting less. Perspective will settle in. Deep breaths will draw attention to purpose. Heads may dare to look up. It’s a chance to roll up yesterday and mark it forever where it belongs to live… the past.
When your fingers clinch the dirt you can push yourself up knowing that today isn’t a mock-up of anything you have experienced before. The fresh smell of this new day confirms one thing to each one of us. Days aren’t templates spit out by machines forcing us to jump from day to day, learning patterns of life and accepting the mold dealt out to us.
No, we know better. Days are born. We get to mold them. And a new day… a fresh day… a morning untainted by yesterday’s mistakes is the best time to realize that we get another chance. A fresh start. A new beginning. We are not bound to yesterday’s mistakes. We are not condemned to the folly of our youth.
Today, on this new day, we can explode into a life that we cherish. We can create moments that we love. We can push forward out of trials and into tried. Learned from our experiences and ready to conquer. Today… we can. We get to. We have.
Pity is weak. Regret is banging on the locked door of the past. Lets take this new day and write out new legacy’s for ourselves. We can charter in a new era of positive thinking, success, and good memories.
The biggest mistake you could make is to assume this day isn’t yours. That it isn’t for you. That you can’t participate, NAY! Commandeer the day and make it perfect. Or… you can roll over, close your eyes, and see if maybe another one comes along tomorrow. It might. It might not. Today is at hand. Grasp it with yours and own it.
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