You can never tell what
type of impact you may have on another's life by your actions or lack of actions. Consider
this fact in your venture through life. Imagine there is a bank that credits your account
each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it
deletes whatever part of the balance your failed to use during the day. What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course!Each of us has such a
bank. It is called TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,4000 seconds. Every night
it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It
carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the
loss is yours. There is NO going back. You cannot draw against "tomorrow's
deposit", you must live in the present of today's deposit.
The clock is running, make the most of today. To realize the
value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH,
ask a mother who gave birth to a pre-mature baby. To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask
the editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage
laborer with kids to feed. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the
train. To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident. To
realize the value of ONE MILLIONTH OF A SECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in
the Olympics.
TREASURE EVERY MOMENT THAT YOU HAVE! And treasure it more
because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time. And
remember that times waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. Today is a
gift...that is why it is called the PRESENT!!
