Just For Today

[Michele Monro]

Today I will open my eyes and thank the Universe for one more day
Today I will look in the mirror and find one thing I like about myself
Today I will smile at a stranger in the traffic
Today I will greet someone I don't particularly like - and mean it
Today I will sing a song and not care if I am off key or who hears
Today I will do something I want to do, no matter what anyone else thinks
Today I will give someone a word of affirmation - not because I have to, but because I want to
Today I will be grateful for who I have in my life, not what I have
Today I will say a sincere thank you if I receive a compliment and not joke it away
Today I will do each task to the best of my ability
Today I will hug someone
Today I will tell someone I love that I love them
Today I will appreciate having a job, a bed and food
Today I will appreciate the beautiful colours of the sunset
Today I will be grateful for one more day that was undeserved, one more day that was lived to the full, one more day to love and be loved, one more day to be me

[mark porter]

thats nice michele . i like it plenty to think about there.

[mariana44]

I agree--it is something that I have not heard before, but lots of food for thought !

[ROBERT M.]

How many people would say...........................

Today I Will Not..................................

[Marian]

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked
up a silk paper wrapped package:

'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.'

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the
box.

'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years
ago. She has never put it on , she was saving it for a special
occasion.

Well, I
guess this is it.

He got near
the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he
was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died.

He turned
to me and said:

'Never save something for a special occasion.

Every day
in your life is a special occasion'.

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.

I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be
lived up to, not survived through.

I no longer
keep anything...

I use
crystal glasses every day...

I'll wear
new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it
whenever I want to.

The words
'Someday...' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my
dictionary.

If it's
worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do
it now....

I don't
know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she
wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.

I think
she might have called her relatives and closest friends.

She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels.

I'd like
to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food.

It's
these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my
time had come..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

Live for
today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

[keithgood838]

Very true, Marian. I guess the philosophical message
is summed up by a Latin phrase from Horace's Odes:
carpe diem (seize the day!).
Keith

[lori]

I plan to read all of your words over and over, so I may observe and practise what you say.. every sentence, all such wonderful rules Thankyou so very much....