Today will be followed by tomorrow, regardless of whether or not you care about it, put it to good use, or are alive to see it.
If my dreams are the same tomorrow, if they are no further along, if my future has not changed, then I have failed. If I have not taken a step today, if I have not moved on, made way, left a wake behind me, then I have failed. I have not grown today, if I have not learned today, if I have not changed in some way, I have failed.
They say, 'And this too, shall pass.' is the only truth, yet these things will always be true of me.
As shall their opposites.
That's excellent, Stuart. I'm going to print it out and tape it to my bathroom mirror. Self-affirmations are great! My favorite (from an old Stuart Smalley "Saturday Night Live" sketch) (ask Krista about this): "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonne it, people like me!"
Oh, and this other lyric, courtesy of The Clash (this comment in reference to your previous post):
They offered me the office,
Offered me the shop
They said I’d better take anything they’d got
Do you wanna make tea at the bbc?
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
Career opportunities are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you is to keep you out the dock
Career opportunities, the ones that never knock
'And this too, shall pass.'
I always say that when I'm constipated.