The three images in this blog are short phrases which I see every day, multiple times in fact. My wife put these wall-transfers on our lounge room wall and stuck some butterfly's around...I'm not sure what the butterfly's do, except collect dust, however the messages, even in their basic three-word format, have some meaning; Or at least, should have some meaning.
If I wrote them...Well, they would probably be more lengthy (Yes, I'm aware I write a lot sometimes) and the messages would be similar, but different.
I agree with learn from yesterday and have made no secret about my scathing disbelief that mankind continues to repeat mistakes of the past over and over. It's like the road-map to the future sits right there, in the form of history, and yet we never seem to look at it and make any positive adjustments to the paths we take. We just travel those same old roads and make the same old mistakes.
I know people, individuals, who learn from the past. I'm one of those people and there's a few other's I know as well. These people evaluate the past, the intelligence from yesterday and use it to make adjustments for today and tomorrow. Sounds easy and you'd be right to think so. It is! However many do not.
An example? Credit debt. We know it's not a good state to be in; History shows us that very clearly and yet...People bury themselves in credit debt because they just can't say no to wanting everything right now! So, learn from yesterday...It's legit.
Live for today. Yes...Legit. You know that thing around you, all those things combined? Yeah, that's your life. There's only one and it's not coming back around. Sure, you may believe in reincarnation but what if you come back as a full-grown turkey a week before Thanksgiving. That would suck right? So, life...It isn't a dress-rehearsal or practice run, it's all you have. The smart people are grabbing it with both hands and creating the best version of it circumstances will permit. Sure, everyone's version of a great life may be somewhat different, but if you are one of those people just treading water, spinning the wheels or floating around not really doing much with it...Well, that's certainly one way to spend the most valuable commodity you'll ever own...Your life. So, live for today...It's Legit.
This one...Hope for tomorrow (Imagine me screwing my face up a little here.) Hope? Hmm, I'm not so sure I want my "tomorrow", my future, in the hands of hope and chance. I get the concept of course; Maintain hope for a bright future and for all the best things in life rather than the negative...But leave those things in the hands of hope? I think these things are best left in the hands of: Ownership, responsibility, hard work, effort, good attitude, self-respect, understanding, self-evaluation and the constant drive towards the ethos of creating the best version of life for yourself and loved ones. I'm pretty sure hope hasn't got a spot on my team of future-life champions!
You see, hope doesn't pay the bills, create amazing world-wide travel opportunities, build wealth, knowledge or self-respect and esteem. Hope doesn't create deep or lasting relationships, get promotions at work, improve one's standard of living or keep one's health on-track. Hope is not a worthless emotion of course, it just has to be applied, deployed and nurtured, together with many other things to have any real value.
Sure, there may be some of you who feel hope is the most advantageous of all emotions and that's quite alright for you to think that way. But do you hope you get paid at the end of the working week or do you go to work and work for it? Do you hope your body and health remain at optimum health or do you eat well and exercise? Do you hope to have children one day or do you get busy with your partner having copious amounts of (multi-positional) sexual encounters until you finally conceive? Hope won't make things happen, actions do. So, hope for tomorrow...Partly Legit, but only when applied to other totally legit actions.
Anyway, there's a little snapshot of two and a bit legit life-lessons I have stuck to the wall in my lounge room. It's impossible to miss them and whilst one of them is less-legit than the others they all have some degree of value. To be honest I never liked the hope one because my wife applied it to the wall at a slightly lower height than the other two and that messes with my OCD however it's one of those things in life one has to accept as just a part of life and then move on to other more OCD-pleasing things.