Saturday, September 22, 2012

Forever in today

It is always seems to be forever between my posts. I'd apologize, but I've decided they'll just come when they come.

You see, my second year of school has started, and I'm not nearly as organized as I was last year. Not in any way. Instead, I'm trudging through, making sure everything is getting done. I feel as if I'm not the only second year feeling this way. We are no longer the new kids on the block (ha! if only!), nor are we about to graduate. We are in the middle just having to use our determination to make it.

We are not the first to feel this way, and we will not be the last.

Most of our lives are lived in this period actually. I mean, think about the seasons of the year:
There is the beginning of Spring, the end of Spring.
Beginning of Summer, and the end of Summer.
Beginning of Fall, the end of Fall.
And then the beginning of Winter, and the end of Winter.

That is eight special days of the year. Eight beginnings and endings. Out of 365 days of the year. The other 357 are spent either looking forward to the next season or remembering the one that has passed. We live with expectations and rememberings. But more importantly, we live.

We live. We live in the yesterdays and tomorrows.

But forever there are todays. There is only so long that you can look forward to the next season, the next job, the next semester... or remember the last semester, the last vacation, the last school...

At some point, we live in today. The forever of monotony. The drudgery. The mundane.

This is where we live. These days do not have to feel mundane while we are in them, though. These are the days where the most change can be made. The fun is not in expecting things, or remembering things. The fun is in doing things. Do things on these mundane days. Do things on the forevers. Do things in the middle.

Forever lasts a long time. So stop looking forward. Stop looking backward.

Find your forever in today.

Today is worth more than any tomorrow.

Forever.