Daily Mood Quote
Day 33 – June 6, 2011
Keep your heart open to dreams, for as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
~Anonymous
I know, keeping dreams and hope alive is not always easy in this time of turbulence. Gasoline prices spiraling out of control, unemployment 9.1% (national average) and people are losing their unemployment, because their benefits had dried up before they could find a job. People are losing their homes, their cars and sometimes everything they ever worked for because greed seems to be running rampant. So, everyday people have to make tough decisions such as, which bill to pay? Do I choose to keep the lights on, or pay to keep the gas on? I know people making these decisions everyday and I see the stress on people faces at the grocery store, at Wal-mart, even while window shopping at the mall. It's hard times out there, no doubt. Don't stop reading now, this will get better.
I am here to tell you, 'You are not alone.” The struggles many of us are experiencing are crappy, big giant piles of poo-poo, but if we close our hearts, we'll lose our hope and then joy leaves the building. Hope gives us the ability to rebound, who remembers the “energy crisis” of 1979? When crude oil went from $15.85 per barrel to nearly $40.00 per barrel. Gas prices jumped to $.90 per gallon and you could only buy five gallons at a time. It may seem laughable now, but it put a lot of people out of work in 1979. People ground through it, they buckled down, looked towards the future and took it one day at a time.
In the movie Titanic, Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) says to a table of wealthy and powerful people, including Kate Winslet (Rose De Witt Bukater), “I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.” Life can present obstacles and sudden challenges for everyone, even those who are well off, that is for certain. To get past them, its best to learn from the past, take each day as it comes and never stop dreaming about the possibilities of the future. For in those dreams there is hope and in hope there is great power. Hope has carried humanity through some of its darkest times. It is the single thing that helps us to rise above our problems and seek safe harbor to weather stormy times and to be ready to set sail again, once the storms have past. This too will pass, but for now, as Jack said, “Life is a gift....to make each day count”
How will you make today count?
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