Blog #11 If everyone lived "with our future in mind", do you think that we would live differently?

I actually think most people do live with their future in mind, too much future to be exact. We start our days off hurrying through breakfast (donuts today/we'll do better tomorrow), we shuffle the kids off to school (we hug them, but don't have time to tell them how much we love them/we'll do better tomorrow). We then go about our day in a hurried fashion counting down the hours until our work or tasks are done; swiping our credit cards (we'll pay them off 'soon') and we try to figure out what dinner we can grab for our family in between the PTA meeting and soccer practice (fast food tonight/we'll do better tomorrow). Then we hurry the kids into bath, teeth brushing and bed (no time for stories tonight/we'll do better tomorrow). Now it is finally time to hit the sack, we lay down and remember we never got that workout in and forgot to call our grandmother to wish her "Happy Birthday" (we'll remember next year). Then for a moment, we think about the kind of person we want to be, the kind of people we were meant to be, and wonder how we got so far off course... so we console ourselves by remembering, there's always tomorrow.  It may not always be a day full of shortcomings, but over scheduling and not planning for real priorities are things we all struggle with. If we could all remember that there are no guarantees, that no one lives forever, and that every moment does count, but only if you are in it, less progress may be made, but more potential would be met!