TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

To know the value of one year... ask the student who failed the final exam.
To know the value of one month... ask the mother of a premature baby.
To know the value of one week... ask the editor of a weekly newsmagazine.
To know the value of one day... ask the wage earner who has six children.
To know the value of one hour... ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To know the value of one minute... ask the person who missed the plane.
To know the value of one second... ask the person who survived the accident.
To know the value of one millisecond... ask the Olympic silver medalist.

       
     This was in my mailbox the other day.  Though we may not have gone through all the above experiences personally, we surely can relate to each one of them.  After all, time is equally dear to all of us.

         Time holds a fascination for many of us.  During my school days, after watching a few sci-fi movies like ‘Back to the Future’,  I used to imagine myself being on the time machine of Doc Brown and the immense possibilities that it would open to me. 

        Would it not be wonderful if one were to travel back in time?  If we had realized the value of our carefree childhood days, would we have savored them better?  We are no saints and given an opportunity, there may be many wrongs which we would like to set right.  I can recollect quite a few occasions I was cruel or unkind to my dear ones without the thought that they may leave us never to return.  How I would like to erase those incidents! 

“There are some hours which are taken from us, 

  some which are stolen from us, 

  and some which slip from us.”
"The moments we forego...
   Eternity itself cannot retrieve."

       The present hides the future from us, a veil which offers no glimpse into the black hole that is our future.  Wisdom lies in living life to the fullest today, with no regrets for yesterday and no anxieties about tomorrow.  As Scarlett O’Hara famously says “After all, tomorrow is another day!”.  May be some day I will be wise enough to realize that! Time indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.