“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death,”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, quoted in Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by Daniel Klein
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“I’d escaped from prison almost two years before, but the fact of the fugitive life is that you have to keep on escaping, every day and every night.”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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What does a day in the life look like?
A renewal, followed by discovery?
Or a dread replayed, never making a getaway?
I like the idea of a daily life.
Every twenty four hours the opportunity to begin again.
We get to choose what we carry from day to day and what is best to leave behind.
But some things that we would rather jettison cling to us.
Fears.
Compulsions.
Shames.
If only it were that simple to hit reset.
It takes practice to bring your best self forward into a new day.
And it is clear running never gets you very far. Give it a few hours and you have to stop running, lie down to rest and awake again in a state of pursuit.
What will it take to wake in a state of wonder and curiosity?
What do I have to do today to give myself the gift of a better tomorrow?
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