Today is my life
Posted on | April 17, 2011 | 69 Comments
I think about life a lot. I imagine what my future will be like; I think about what I want to accomplish and what kind of person I want to be. I want to write a hit song. I want to be a good friend. I want to play Pebble Beach. I want to be generous, and willing to sacrifice for the people I love. Maybe I’d like to write a novel someday, or devote an entire year to traveling the world. Life feels so impossibly big that when I think about it, it’s hard to imagine any limits on what I can do or who I can be.
Over the past few years, I’ve realized that this outlook might actually be dangerous. Not the part about having goals or ambition or wanting to be a better person – where would we be without that? No, I’ve realized that it’s dangerous to think of life as something bigger than it actually is – today, then tomorrow, then another day, and so on. “Life” is just the sum of our days. Days in which we wake up and eat breakfast and make choices before going to bed and starting over the next day.
For this reason, the first thing that I tell myself when I wake up is, “Today is my life.” If there are things that I want to accomplish in life, or a person I want to be remembered as, it needs to be reflected in my days. If not, how is it going to happen? How will I be remembered as someone willing to sacrifice if, when presented with the choice today, I chose to be selfish? How will I accomplish something big or difficult if I’m not willing to take some small step towards it today? Today is my life – not tomorrow, or next year, or in a decade.
This way of thinking is nothing new; in fact, it’s quite a cliché. Seize the day, live each moment to the fullest – they are all variations on the same theme. But where living each moment to the fullest seems like an impossible (and exhausting) task, thinking about the consequences of the choices I make every day helps me stay focused on things that are important. If more often than not, my daily choices are in line with what is principally important to me, I’ll live the life I want to. If they aren’t…I won’t. Today is my life.
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