Day 293 of wisdom
“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”
William Shakespeare
A movement that is not forward oriented, a movement that is not progressive (not in name, but in deeds) is not a worthy movement. The past is gone, and unalterable, the misfortunes it brought may abide, but we can turn it around for a better future. The future is where life is, life is not in the past, it is dead and gone, the future is what we have. The today we have was our future yesterday, and what we now experience is a direct result of our actions and inactions yesterday. The things we could not fight for, work for, and demand yesterday are the bane of our growth and development today.
The future that we will have tomorrow is the future that we imagine today, design today, and are ready to implement starting today. If we fail to imagine, create, fight for, and build that future we will get the future we didn't bargain for, the future we less desire, the future we will not be proud of. As Abraham Lincoln said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it." we must create the future we want.
Our best days are ahead of us, the golden age is yet to be unveiled, the past is no more to be reckoned with, we are the hope of generations to come. If we refuse to create a better tomorrow, our today will be a better time to live in than tomorrow. As Owen Feltham would say, "Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves." if we neglect our duty, if we fail to do for our unborn generations what our predecessors didn't do, we will be worse than they are and all our efforts would be in futility.
In life you don't get what you deserve, you get what you fight for, work for, and stand your ground for. If you stand for nothing you will always fall for everything; if you don't move forward, you will surely move in retrograde; there is no stagnancy in life, there is no middle ground, there is only forward or backward movement, there is either a left or a right, there is either up or down. The world we are requires extraordinary measures to achieve anything of note, as Lewis Carroll wrote, "My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that." To be stagnant, you must run, to move forward you must double your speed, please, move.
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