I'd have to agree with Eclipse_Man and others, who have pointed out how every day can be a special one. Vince has been expounding that philosophy for all the time that I've known him, and it's one that I also increasingly embrace every day. I know so many people who sit around complaining about the government, complaining about this or that, finding reasons to be angry, depressed, or anything negative, and I just continually shake my head.
I have two friends that I get together with about 20-25 Wednesday nights a year. We listen to the music of our youth, usually stuff that's 25-40 years old, drink a little, and a few other things. I pointed out to these two guys about a year or two ago, that since I started hanging out with them, in the summer of 1974, they almost ALWAYS wind up discussing the evils of capitalism, and lamenting the present government, as well as bashing "big business."
Having been trying to live for Christ myself since the morning of September 10, 1984, I have increasingly tried to point out a few things to them, but I wonder if it makes any impression at all, and not just to these two guys. I believe that we are certainly in the worst time of trouble since humans came upon the earth. I, like them, and many others, look around at our planet, and see despair, disease, poverty, immorality, inhumanity, decadence, and depravity of such a magnitude that indeed I am often prompted to think, or even say out loud, "let's just start lobbing nukes at each other, blow it up and start all over again."
Of course, I don't really long to see that day, but I do believe it's coming soon. And in my own country, despite the increasing selfishness, rudeness, and inconsideration I see all around me, signifying a culture that has become so ungrateful and mean spirited, that one cannot help but see it's sure demise, I continue to find reasons to live.
I continue to find reasons to wake up, praise The Lord and want to live each day to the fullest. I continue to wake up and find beauty in each day, and consequently a reason to reach out for strength and good cheer, with which to approach it. Even when I have a bad day, and can think of nothing but my foul mood and cursing, I'm still praising The Lord, just for being alive, and knowing that whether or not I can acknowledge it at the time, that indeed, that bad day has had it's own share of progress and beauty.
Therefore, don't waste time, life is here and life is now. Through good days and bad, you're alive, and there's a universe inside your mind. Light up that cigar and go deep inside your mind, or in my case, sometimes I just have to look at my cat. Now there's a reason to laugh if I ever saw one, and that is enough beauty to fill an entire day by itself.
