I’m Fixing to Take it One Day at a Time

I’m fixing to take it one day at a time.

There are two days in the week about which we don’t need to worry about anything. They should be free from fear, apprehension and cares of any type. One of these days is yesterday with it’s miseries, mistakes, faults and blunders, along with its aches and pains. This day has passed forever beyond our control and all the money and praying in the world won’t bring back yesterday or change it.

It’s impossible to undo a single act which we now regret. We can’t erase any words we said in haste or anger. Yesterday is gone.
The other day we don’t need to worry about is tomorrow with its hopes, dreams, burdens and promises of things to come, good and bad. You may try to plan for it but tomorrow is beyond our control.

The sun will rise tomorrow, bright and beautiful, or dim behind banks of dreary clouds, but it will rise. And until it does we have no stake in tomorrow. It is not born yet.

That only leaves us with one day—today.

I have found an escape from these worrisome concerns about yesterday. I do it through writing, because in writing we are not bound by time. I’ll attempt to explain this.

How many times have we looked back at a time or situation in the past and regretted our words or actions? How many times have we all said to ourselves, “I wish I had said this instead of what I did?” or, “I wish I had of done this instead of what I did?”

But it’s always too late because tomorrow is dead and gone and we are bound by time so we can’t go back and unsay or undo.

But what I write is not bound by time. I can go back and change what I said and say the right thing, or go back and change the actions of the characters and make sure they do what’s right.

It is not the remorse or bitterness for something that happened yesterday or the dread of what tomorrow may bring which should control our actions of today.

Therefore, let us be fixing to live one day at a time.