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TOMORROW

As a child I was always wishing for tomorrow. Fumbling through life, often forgetting today, and could hardly wait to see what tomorrow would bring. I spent most of my youth wishing away the years, years that I would later realize were precious and special.

Although the early years were carefree and full of fun, when I reached twelve thing began to change. Discontent with twelve, thirteen seemed a better age to be. That was the age at which I would be a teenager, an age where the younger kids would look up to me with respect.

As I reached thirteen it was evident that it would not surface for sixteen was the age I really wanted to be. An age at which I could drive and do so many special things. Finally after three long years, I reached sixteen, only to find out that eighteen was really the age to be.

At eighteen I would become a man, ndependent, free- spirited and able to demand the respect that I felt was due me. I was eighteen barely a month when it struck me, if I were only twenty-one, I could drink and vote and would not have to answer to anyone. twenty-one was the age of adulthood - the place in life with all the answers.

Then the strangest thing happened on my twenty-first birthday; something that didn't seem to make sense. I missed the younger years. I had a desire to go back and enjoy all the simple things in life, the carefree times when nothing mattered. I wanted to go back to the times when there was nothing to do and lots of time to do it.

Then reality set in. I realized there were things to do and places to go, people to see and not enough time to do it all. Everything in life seemed as if it had to be done yesterday. I rushed to and fro, back and forth to the point it seemed like as if I had no direction.

At that point in life the answer seemed evident. There was only one solution and one way to do it and I decided, "I will do it tomorrow". I came to this decision in order to survive the lack of direction in my life and this was my promise to myself.

Taking a vacation with the family, playing with my kids, doing a little hunting, going fishing with my dad were just a few of the things on my list of things to do. A strange way of life developed from all these promises; it was called procrastination. While patiently waiting for tomorrow to come a deep sadness came over me. My wife and I grew further apart and ended up getting a divorce. My children grew up only to have a lives and families of their own to contend with, and not having and time left for me.

I had an accident and I couldn't walk well enough to hunt anymore. My father passed away and we never did get to go on that fishing trip. The things I was going to do tomorrow just never seemed to get done.

I learned a valuable lesson from all this. Life is too short and tomorrow is so far away. I would give everything I own to relive those precious moments over. The Lord has put all his beautiful creations on this earth for us to see and enjoy. He reminds us that we cannot change yesterday and tomorrow may never come. So enjoy today in all its splendor. For it is a special day the Lord made just for me.

Sleep well my friend, wherever you may be------YMIRon

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