Worry tomorrow. Cool it today!
“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.” John Jay Chapman, an author, writer and essayist.
My friend Angela is a classic film buff. She must know every line of every classic film in existence and some everyone has forgot. If you ask her which film quotation she likes best, though, it’s an easy pick for her. She adores Scarlett O’Hara’s last words from “Gone With the Wind” — “After all, tomorrow is another day!” Angela’s a died in the wool Yankee but named her Canadian house Tara, not for “Gone With the Wind” but for Scarlett’s last words in the film. They have become Angela’s mantra. Tara in Halifax is her “tomorrow house.”
Does the rain drain fall off her house in a winter wind and its five P.M. and nary a workman in sight? No problem. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Is the snow so deep that she can’t get out and she’ll eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and day old scones until it melts? Not to worry: “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Has her entire department been laid off and she’s not sure how she will get the work done on time? Well, it’s closing time so nothing to be done now. “And, after all, tomorrow is another day.”
And, Angela, feeling less stressed, less confused and less pressured, then deals with tomorrow just fine.
Meditation for the Day
”Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.” The late Mary C. Crowley, American business leader
Action for the Day
Today, I’ll consider that if I worry today about tomorrow, then worry owns me for two days instead of just minutes. That’s not only silly; it’s counter-productive. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
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