Preparing for the
Worst Day of Your Life
Beware... for the worst day of your life
is coming, if it hasn't happened already. Everyone will have many bad
days, and everyone will have at least one "worst day of their
life". You won't know when it is coming, and you don't know how
bad it will be. Worst of all, you can't prepare for it. When you worst
day happens, just like death itself, it will be one of the greatest
surprises of your life.
This doesn't mean that you are helpless, even if you can't control the
'what' and the 'when' of your worst day. There is something you do
have some control over, which is the severity of your worst day. You
can live a life in such a way that whatever happens to you, the worst
day won't seem so bad. If a person lives a life of virtue, how much
trouble can they? Not much!. Still, everyone is human and sometimes
our virtue is at low ebb. What then? Be very careful, because when
virtue is at its low point, that's when things start to go bad.
William James said it best, "Acts as if what you do makes a
difference. It does." His point in this context is that good
intentions tends to lead to good results...or in other words, virtue
is its own reward. A person who is striving to act justly and kindly
towards people and God's laws, tends to draw the best sort of
responses in return. So, if you want your worst day to be not so bad,
then live a virtuous life. If you can't do that, then at least act as
if what you do makes a difference, because it does.
The Only Hope for the World is
for Us to Change It.
We change
the world best by changing ourselves for the better. If
everyone had the same ambition to change just themselves, the world
would quickly become transformed into a veritable
Paradise.
There is much in the world to be
discouraged about. Sometimes it seems that the humanity of the human
race hasn't progressed very much. The same problems remain, some more
and some less. People become discouraged and numb to their situation.
They remain static, stymided,
and without hope that their mere efforts could have much effect on the
world. Thus, they tend to do nothing more than what benefits them.
Change is what everyone wants so long as isn't them who is doing the
changing.
There is only one thing that all people
everywhere can do to change the world and that is to change
themselves. People can change what they know and what they do. To do
more, people must become more. To become more, people must become
more.
Although knowing is important, most
people don't use but a tiny fraction of what they already
know. Given a choice of knowing more or using what one already knows,
I would choose to do more with what I already know. Using what one
already has is something that we can do now. So, if you want to see a
real change, just starting doing more of what you already know you
should be doing.
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