Today

Like inmates in a prison cell, some people live in the past. They spend their days constantly ruminating about things that they did or things that were done to them. Whether pain or pleasure, glory or defeat, their life is defined by the past tense. Some others, like children on Christmas Eve, live in the future. They chase eventual glory or dread impending doom. Their lives are lived in a future that never arrives in quite the same way that it is imagined. But, what of today? We can mourn days gone by or long for the "sweet by and by," but what of the present now and now? There is nothing we can do to change the past and the future is unknown to us. We have this moment. The day before us is a day to which we once looked forward and it will soon be a day that we remember. How will we live today?