You could be good today,” the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote. “But instead you choose tomorrow.”
There’s always tomorrow
for all our priorities,
for all our problems,
for all our dreams,
for all our anticipated deliberate dedication.
I am a living testament of falling, and failing into this ‘tomorrow’ trap.
I have been a prisoner.
I have wasted almost 2 decades of my beautiful life believing it to be true.
I have failed myself so many times by successfully postponing things until tomorrow.
I don’t mean I have come clean now.
There definitely are residues!
See, if you look surgically, and carefully, and with intentional curiosity, and with honest dare — you will acknowledge that you’ve absolutely zero control over how the template of tomorrow is going to pan out for you, that you have completely no grip over almost all the variables that makes up this ‘tomorrow’ crap. Surprisingly, how gravely fool we a.r.e, to trust ‘it’ anyway?
It’s not that I never had had this forms of internal dialog, it’s just that they never weighted too much in front of tons of sweet distractions I have always had to give my abundant time to. To put it simply: Procrastination has always been an elephant in the room for me. And, good chances are, may be, you too have been worshiping this dream-killing-god that momentarily saves us all —
from the pain of having to go through the storm,
from the pain of having to go and do the shits that really matter,
from the pain of having to bear the pain itself!
Wake up.
Breathe.
Break Free.
Pay your dues!
Move.
Sprint.
Act.
Namaste!
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