Some Day & One Day 当有一天

As time flies and years go by, I wonder whether any of you feel afraid of how past time passes.

My dad once told me, ''I know time passes very fast when I see you growing up taller year by year, and now you are an adult. It was like yesterday when you were still at the height of my knee.'' Now I am able to comprehend his feeling when he said that.

24 hours do not seem to be enough for a day! Am I too greedy? I wonder what will happen if there is 48 hours a day? My guess will be working class has to work 24 hours a day! Well, blue and white collars know what I am saying. Guess it does do something good to the mankind by keeping a day 24 hours. But aren't we the ones who came up with that?

Well, the post that I am sharing below reminds me few personal incidents, which only all resulted in one same conclusion- time does not wait. I have thought of bring my dad to circum navigate one day, thought of waiting him to share his old grandfather stories of our family to his grandchildren someday, and thoughts of many 'somedays' and 'maybe one day'. In the end, dad left and my 'some days' all went into 'never ever will be a day'.

Just personal opinion here, there is no'some day and one day', there is just 'today' and 'never ever will be a day'.

Hereby sharing a post that i had received:

SOME DAY & ONE DAY

A friend of mine opened his wife's wardrobe and picked up a silk paper wrapped package.

"This," he said, "isn't any ordinary package."

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box n silk satin dresses inside.

"She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on , was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it."

He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died.

He turned to me and said, "never save something for a 'special occasion'. Every day in your life is a 'special occasion'".

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.

I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.

I no longer keep anything.

I use crystal glasses every day.

I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.

The words 'Someday....' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my dictionary.

If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.

I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

Cheers,
SL Alpha