There is a common saying that, ‘You should never put off ‘til tomorrow what you can or should do today.’ Conversely, procrastinators have a saying that you should never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. I believe the first of those sayings is rooted in the fact that I know what it is that I should do and/ or have to do today. It has been planned or laid out for me, and to procrastinate doing it only adds to my workload tomorrow.
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”(Abraham Lincoln) Evading the work today will not set me free of it tomorrow. Putting off today what seems hard may be doubly hard tomorrow. Too, I may only think I know what I have to do tomorrow, but fate, disguised as a broken water pipe or something similar, may unknowingly, add to my workload tomorrow. So, if today’s work is done, tomorrow may be less overwhelming, come what may.
Many times I have had hopes to finish a planned work project in a day. But because of an unexpected delay or because portion of that project took longer than anticipated, the work wasn’t finished. In those cases the apology goes like this, “Well, tomorrow’s another day,” meaning, of course, that the completion of the project is just going to have to wait ‘til tomorrow. Thank goodness for tomorrows, because more often than not I am dependent upon tomorrows, because I couldn’t get it done today. From the play ‘Annie’ comes the song ‘Tomorrow,’ and the last verse goes like this: “The sun’ll come out, Tomorrow—So ya gotta hang on ‘Til tomorrow—Come what may, Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, Tomorrow! You’re always a day away!
I love ya! Because you are always a day away. I’m free of tomorrow’s responsibilities because tomorrow is always a day away. There is always hope in tomorrow, because it is always a day away. This is the hope of the addicted, regardless of the addiction. This is the hope of the downtrodden as well. ‘I will be strong tomorrow, I will find a way to make things better tomorrow. Benjamin Franklin didn’t have much faith in those with faults, as he said, “Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.” It actually does come for a few and we should never take away their hope in tomorrow. I, for one, will cheer them on and encourage their tomorrow, for there was always a tomorrow in our family. As Annie sang, “The sun’ll come out, Tomorrow.” We hung on, and the sun did come out. A precious son, with determination in his heart and the support of his family, had the strength to make ‘tomorrow’ a different day in his life.
Audrey Hepburn said, “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” I, like Audrey, believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls and that happy boys are the handsomest boys. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe in miracles and I believe that ‘tomorrow’ is another day, a day of sunshine and hope for everyone. May God bless us all to believe in ‘tomorrow’ because ‘tomorrow’ the sun will shine and ‘tomorrow’ is going to be a special day. Each day brings a new ‘tomorrow’ so we never run out of special days.