Last Sane Man Standing - Blog of Corey Deitz

Today is the Best Day of the Rest of Your Life

May 26, 2007

There's nothing like a 3-day weekend - it's a real gift. That extra day is especially sweet.

But, I think we cheat ourselves out of much enjoyment by putting too much emphasis on 3-day weekends, our yearly 2-week vacations, and even our standard 2-day weekends.

We spend a lot of our time anticipating a small handful of days which occur as part of the much larger event we call our lives.

My on-air partner, Jay, lives for vacation time. I have often told him I think it's almost sad that he places so much emphasis on such a small amount of his life. I can't live that way. I can not live waiting months and months just so I can really enjoy that 1 week off which we get every 6 months.

What about all those days waiting? Shouldn't each one be something more than just a 24-hour cycle on an alarm clock? Weekdays aren't meant to be counters that just get us to Saturday and Sunday. Your life is not "X" marks on a calendar that you check off to mark time as you march toward some theoretical "better" days in your future.

Your life is not divided up into any segments. That's just some marketing ploy to sell calendars, clocks, and watches. Your life is one special continuum that began the day you were born.

As for me, I won't live my life waiting to live my life. There's an old expression: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

I have a better one: "Today is the best day of the rest of your life."

- If you want it to be.