Confidence for Tomorrow

I think I wanted to talk about this awhile ago, maybe for about a week already, but when I wanted to write here I forgot what I was supposed to write about, and when I remembered, I was too busy with schoolwork.

Now that I have time, here it goes:

In my sociolinguistics class on Monday, we were watching a video where Daniel Everett was speaking about the Pirahã people. I had never heard of them but that's not the main point of this entry. It was certainly a very interesting video but something he said at the end struck me.

He quoted a line from the Bible which I found out was from Matthews 6:34 - "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

He phrased it in a very sensible way and what I got from it was:

Take care of today, and tomorrow will take care of itself.. This is not short-term thinking; this is long-term thinking with confidence ...

It is true. Why do we worry so much about the future when we don't even spend time thinking about what we should be doing today to make a better tomorrow?

Whether we are talking about saving the Earth or referring to our daily lives, be it as simple as finishing a task today or as complex as planning our career lives ahead of us, TODAY is what matters. If you don't concentrate on doing what you should focus on right this moment, how can you be sure that things later on will turn out the way you want them to?

It is the way he says "long-term thinking with confidence" was what really got me. I am not a person with much self-confidence, so this was really a booster to my short-term thinking, giving me more positive support that we should really live life to the fullest and treasure everything we have. I think my blog is really sounding repetitive with all these sentences in ever other post, but I'm seeing life in a whole new perspective from what I did a few years ago.

People don't change, life does. It's the people around us who makes us who we are, and we don't change by ourselves. We change BECAUSE life brings us so many different things that make us stronger or weaker, and it is up to us to adapt to that, to stand ourselves up or be defeated.

I don't know where I'm going with this point, but I definitely have more thoughts on it. I'm sure many people these days are too wrapped up in our hectic society to spare some time to give these things a thought. If you don't agree with me, it's entirely up to you. It's just my two cents worth, so have a thought yourself and please share them with me!