Today.

We often meet the question; ‘how was your day?’ and when we do, our minds begin racing through all the stuff that we have encountered in that one day. All the people, the places we’ve been to, the conversations we have been involved in and the other many that I may not be at liberty to include here. So, thus we sum our days, a series of events that we have been involved in. but do we realize how our day spans way beyond what we have been involved in, do we notice the numbers of people whose days we are a part of even without their invitation? The shop attendant, the taxi man, the children crossing the road in fornt of our car and the others whose lives we visit with neither them nor us noticing.

If that brief introduction is to be followed, I can proceed. It occurred o me recently that each day represents a last day to something or someone or somewhere. Every day at the same time represents a first day to the same. It therefore follows that when each day begins, it carries in it both the beginnings and the ends and that when each day is ending, it carries the same. So here we are facing the possibility of a beginning and that of an end and many times living in at least one of them if not both or combinations of both.

We also realize that while we exist individually, we are each sharing with a vast majority of components. We are constantly sharing the common existence that is presented to all of us by the day. And while we all strive to get our most from a single day, we all have it equally and that to be selfish in an area of the day is to be ignorant of the abundances that are available to us all. We also realize that in the place of a selfish existence could grow a selfless giving and that to the benefit of all. It becomes obvious that the most hard working individuals of our communities could also share in the beauty of the abundant giving, a lesson we so clearly learn from each day that comes to us. That in the days of war, we are each exposed to the same dangers and yet if we all could, unity would see all our children safe.

The moral of the discussion is simply this; we have each day only once. And though in the morning we experience it for the first time in the morning, we experience it for the last time in the evening. The things that we do today, we can only do for the last time today. Actions released are often hard to call back and the beauty of our intentions should not be a secret for long because while to you it’s just the beginning, to another the end may be very close at hand.

When we set our efforts to a task, when we chose to love one, when we prepare for war and when we practice for sport, what ever we set ourselves to do, we should bare in mind that the end is indeed with us just as is the start. And while we don’t know for how long that may be, we know that we can make it last for ever. Some people have loved us and for that they will last for a lifetime, others have done a work in ways that history and the news will always adore them.
The beauty of each day is simply that we have it and all that it contains, what we do with it is always up to us. Let us realize that the best is required today and for today