Burdens

"It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today."
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We are living in a time when there are all kinds of reasons to be afraid of tomorrow. We are afraid of what the economy might do. We are worried about our jobs, our investments, even our favorite organizations. We are afraid of terrorism, and the effects of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We all have regrets about yesterday. We regret some of the things we did, and a lot of the things we didn't do. We are afraid that the window of opportunity has closed for us. Sometimes we sit and say "What if ... had happened?" That's a real waste of time because we can't do anything about what has already happened except learn from it. No matter how big a mistake we made in the past, it's over with. "There's no use crying over spilt milk". We need to move ahead, and do what we need to do in the present.

The burdens we have today are not so bad. They seem difficult because we are afraid that the results of our work will not be good enough, something that we can't possibly know right now. They seem difficult because we see them as something we shouldn't have to be doing if ... had happened in the past. We see them as difficult because we are either worried about the future or regretting the past.

We must concentrate on doing our work today. If we do our best work today, that is the most effective way to ensure the best possible future. And we can't do our best work today if our mind is halfway in the past, and regretting that we have to do this work at all.

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