tomorrow
by: teresa

Each living day comes with a challenge, whether it’s finding the right shoes to wear, or trying to pass a test in a class. Sometimes those challenges can be more advanced than the ones described above. Do people wonder what would happen if there was no tomorrow? The other challenge that comes in life is wondering what will be going on the next day. Do you ever think about your future? Should we really be living life to the fullest? Many questions similar to those can be asked, but is there a reasonable answer for them? The basic concept about having challenges is challenging yourself to something different each day-living it like there’s not tomorrow.

Everyday I think about my friends who have lost someone really special, and I try and feel the paid they are experiencing. They tell me how much it hurts to lose someone close, but they also tell me how lucky they were to be with them the previous day. I’ve heard it so much, “Live life to the fullest, don’t take it for granted,” so many times it’s been said, yet so many times I asked what taking for granted meant. Of course I knew what living life to your fullest meant, but I wasn’t sure about the other half. “What could it possibly mean?” I asked my self continuously. Maybe if I put the words together…”granted”, “taking”, and “life”, so it could not wishing that you lived forever? Wanting to live forever because you love it so much? Well, I guess life has a lot of unanswered questions.

What more is there to say? I’ve tried living each day like there was no tomorrow seems somewhat bleak. Growing up as a deprived child that went from many friends to barely any has been quite a downfall. Knowing that I try to do the best I can, I also know that sometimes things just don’t work out the way I want it to.

Everyday, I wake up asking myself, “What can I do to make this day worth while?” I’d stare at my ceiling and think about that. As of this day, it’ll be a while until I can make my own choice on how to live life, maybe, just maybe there be that one perfect day for me and everything will go as I wished. Not knowing if I am going to be here tomorrow is another story, but for now I just want people to know I am not afraid for what’s going to happen. The perfect day is yet to come, but hopefully there’s more than one perfect day left for me.