Yesterday Is Not Ours to Recover. What about tomorrow?

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

This was a statement made by John Smith’s teacher in the movie ‘Breakthrough.’

Wow! Such a cool statement. I wrote it down the moment I heard it and have decided to share my thought on it.

We are no more in control of yesterday. However, we can control what we do tomorrow to either win or lose.

You may be feeling guilty or regretting the past. Or maybe, yesterday was a better time for you than today. But do you know what? Guilt and regret are among the most destructive emotions out there. It would help if you got rid of them.

There’s a point in life where an individual romanticizes his past to the point where he thinks that his present is unbearable. This happens when you believe that your glory years are behind you.

If you are doing this currently, I will advise you to pause; take a break, and look around you. Be grateful and express gratitude for what you currently have. You know the biggest thing you have now: Your life and the ability to read this. Be grateful. You can’t recover yesterday anymore but tomorrow is yours to win or lose.

You may have wasted precious years doing nothing, played away your time. You’ve come to realize that you’ve lost a lot of time and resources doing nothing. You have sobered up ad probably feeling pity for yourself and wishing you could go back to put things in order. In as much as that sounds cool, you don’t have to stay there.

The most important time is NOW. And you know another gift you have now? Your Time.

Use it wisely, and tomorrow will be yours to win. And your future self will thank you a lot for it.

Although the past is an integral part of our lives, it is in the present, and the future where our capacity to make transformations is settled. We are not the sum of our past, and we must concentrate on living in the present.

So, instead of brooding over the past, get up, and make plans for tomorrow. You’ll only be wasting more resourceful time while thinking of the past instead of drawing the plan for the future.

Cheers!