The next day

If someone would tell you what the next day will be like, would this change something in what you usually do? If you would be fully aware of tomorrow would you even attempt to change something in today so that tomorrow would be different? I know a lot of people that would say "yes, I would do something different", "I would change it", "I would, at least, give it a shot"...

On one hand, I believe in one's good will to become a part of own destiny: yes, people tend to react in certain ways just to avoid some bad events; better yet, repairing consequences of bad events that already happened. But, on the other hand, I don't believe that we are strong enough to take our own destiny into our hands.

Shocking, right? Although the answer is pretty simple, let me put things into a different perspective in order to understand where I come from. What is the REAL difference between the following two phrases: "someone told me that my tomorrow will be like this" and "if I take few minutes today to think, can I anticipate that my tomorrow will be like this"? With other words, what is the difference between someone telling us how our tomorrow would be and us actually thinking of that?

Each of our tomorrow's is a direct consequence of our actions or reactions to what happens today. We alone, and no others, know what we are doing today, be that a reaction to something that happens to us or a consciously driven action to achieve a certain something. We are generating our future either by passively watching things happening to us or by doing very concrete actions towards some goal. Let's try a mind exercise showing us options that we have in such cases.
* Say, we are facing a huge opportunity to be happy tomorrow. Today, however, we are too busy allowing ourselves to get caught into some other trivial activities that stand for nothing at any time.
* Say, we get over the trivial activities, however, we're just too busy trying to gain something for today that clearly stops everything that could have been successful tomorrow.

Interesting enough, we tend to listen to someone else stating the obvious instead of expecting this from ourselves. And, in the end, even if we try to do everything right, there's always the possibility to do something wrong, regardless of how little that thing might be. Fear? Naivety? Impulsiveness? Ignorance? Or the other infinite possible causes?

Some years ago, someone told me that the next day is always the toughest. He was wrong, the toughest day is always today. And I will always try to fight today for the chance of happiness tomorrow.