Everyday is a New Day

Fahad
Fahad
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

A lesson that I have come to learn is that yesterday is it’s own chapter.

What do I mean by that?

Well whatever I did yesterday is now fixed in time, written down in the memoirs of my own little biography, my history.

Whatever choices I made yesterday will affect the future, and is likely a reason for whatever I am doing right now. For example, as a result of not writing yesterday, I wanted to make sure that I did today.

Although, what it also means is that in today’s chapter it can be totally different. I don’t have to be defined by the choices of yesterday, there is nothing that needs to bind me down.

This I believe is an important lesson.

In the past whenever I made a choice, I felt or became bound by that choice in the future. Such as when I ate too much food and strayed from my diet for three or four days in the week, I would forego the rest of the week of ‘clean’ eating.

Except this not need be the case, I let the past days define the rest of the week when I could have chosen for them not to.

I am actually really glad to know that this isn’t a snowflake problem. Many people have suffered from this and even more still do.

A person does a degree in chemistry, hence feel they can’t follow their passion for becoming a wildlife photographer, or a person who comes from a rough and poor background feel like that their future is set in stone, to be stuck around this destructive environment they are already a part of.

I still suffer from this. There have been plenty of times where I felt and feel the past defines the now and the future. But as I become aware of the fact that this is all just in my head, and everyday I am making choices, everyday I can choose to deviate from yesterday, I am beginning to take more control of my life.

Actually, what I should say is that I am beginning to realise that the control was always in my hands. I have the choice to take the steps I want, I just couldn’t see clearly enough.

Most of the times as they say, the answers are always right under our nose or right in front of you.

I haven’t really written or even posted after my little challenge and to be honest my motivation or actually my drive for completing tasks to help me reach my goals, my dreams, my vision has been very minimal, and it’s really frustrating.

Honestly I feel like absolute crap because I know I could have done so, so much more!

But, I realise I can’t change the past and I have made my choices then.

The great thing is that every second, minute, hour and day I can choose to make a new decision.

I realise that I have been lazy, that I haven’t been as productive or driven as I want to be to achieve my goals. I may even need to sit down and have a talk with myself, re-analysing a few things, looking for reasons why this stint of inaction was the case.

The great thing is that I have identified this and tomorrow I can make choices to improve and the past doesn’t have to tie me down if I don’t let it.

It’s like you hear, you can’t live in the past to create a better future. We can learn from the past, but we shouldn’t live in it. Live in the present, make new choices as necessary and create a better future.

That is what needs to be done.

Now it is time I kicked myself into gear and abide by this philosophy. It is time I started to put in the work I want to and need to put in. Otherwise what is the point of having a dream. If I take no proper action then it will only be a wish, and when I am 80, it will become regret.

Everyday is a new day, yesterday is the past.


Thank you for reading.

Fahad

Fahad

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Fahad

Electrical Engineer. Writer of My Life Lessons, Inspiration, Stories and Thoughts. Bengali Welshman. Following the path to my dreams and helping others.

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