There will come a day when you would give anything at all to feel how you do today.
In fact, you’d give everything.
Today.
This applies whether you are having a great day.
Or a truly awful day.
You know the kind of awful day I mean.
Those days where nothing goes to plan.
Toast falls butter down.
You shout at the children and it hurts you more than it hurts them.
You growl at your partner for no good reason.
And you can’t find your keys.
These are bad days.
But as I say, there will definitely come a day when you would give anything at all to feel how you do today.
In fact, you’d give everything.
Goodbye.
The day you have to say goodbye, when it comes, (and it will, of course) is your worst day.
Because on that day you have no need for plans.
Or buttered toast.
On that day, shouting at children will feel completely foreign to you.
As will growling at your partner.
In fact, you’ll know at that very moment how wasteful the shouting and the growling really was.
And you will care little for the whereabouts of your keys.
You don’t need keys today.
What Matters.
Whilst I (probably) don’t know you, two things I do know are these.
First, if today really was the day you had to say goodbye – nothing I have mentioned here would matter to you.
And second, what I also know is that whatever things do matter to you on your last day should also matter more than anything else in your whole world – today.
Only you know what those things are.
And only you can, today and every day, treat them with the importance they deserve.
From now, if you like.
Think.
I’ve thought about what would really matter to me on my goodbye day.
And I’ve change a few things straight away.
You can too.
If you want.
Because – let’s face it – who knows when your goodbye day is?
See you tomorrow.
Probably.
