It is believed that the future is a mythical land of peace and prosperity. One where everyone gets along, nobody gets sick and the world is a beautiful place once again. But looking at today and the world we’ve created for ourselves, it’s difficult to even fathom the idea of a world similar to the one above. So I write this article in hopes of reminding you that sometimes a better today can make the future a lot brighter.
A tongue full of only tomorrow’s will never quench your thirst for today.
So live in the present, make every choice matter. Do things because they make you happy not because it makes more money. Don’t live a life in hopes of a happier tomorrow, because if we are all just working towards a better tomorrow, whose to say we aren’t wasting today away.
Being a college student, every day is spent working towards one thing, the future, more specifically, to graduate and get that diploma. We sometimes forget to make each day count, instead, we begin to count the days until it’s done. We do this with the idea that whatever comes after is better than now.
But where does that get us? Where does counting down and waiting for tomorrow take us? Does it matter?
These questions are so important and once you’ve found the answers, everything comes into perspective. It’s in these answers that I have chosen to live my life. It’s time to quench that thirst for today, to return to our roots and find what makes us happy. Tomorrow isn’t going anywhere. It will be there whether we are ready or not. Sometimes, we don’t have a lot of time left and I for one don’t want to go knowing that I spent most of my days waiting for a tomorrow that never came to do all the things I had planned to do with my life.
Every moment is delicate, bittersweet and relevant. Tomorrow may not come again.
My aunt once said to me, memories are all we keep and they really are, money comes and goes, so do people but it is the memories we make on this journey that we call life that make it matter in the end. So take that road trip, buy that jacket, if it makes you happy, then do it. The world is a beautiful place, we just have to take a step back and see it for what it is. Find comfort in the natural beauty that surrounds us all.
The future is ours, but so is today.
Make it count.
