A Today day

What are doing today? Beyond your enumerated list of TODOs, I wager that you are merely thinking of tomorrow, or a tomorrow. Or, maybe today you thought mostly of yesterday, only to remind yourself that yesterday is gone. But tomorrow is still there!

But what about today? Not every day can be lived today, sometimes a tomorrow’s today behooves you, or possibly even a yesterday’s today. Too much today’s today we may lose perspective, but too little and we lose life. Only but a day at a time.

Some take this to mean the proper today’s today is the current day only when celebration or assured joy is in order, which I say is not so. That is merely hedonism, abstracted and timed during many tomorrow’s todays. A today’s today is presence. Perhaps to an extent of the loss of focus, in lieu of pure presence.

I will say that a today’s today isn’t just there for you tomorrow. Today may be pain, meant to be shouldered only today. So bear it now. Do not dwell in the yesteryear of pain or happiness alike, or make shade under the forecasted doom or comfort that may lie ahead.

Perhaps one must void hope and memory both to bear life presently. But memories burn too strong, and hope to powerful a drug. So we mosey on. Living mostly tomorrow’s today - and to that, I hope today comes for you, and you accept it. Whenever that may be.