Tomorrow, It Will Get Better
Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
by Susan Thom
If each day that we experience passes, and we believe that the next day will be better, we can't lose. We are going to bed anticipating a good day when we wake up. It doesn't mean it's going to happen, but a good night's sleep is worth believing it is. An attitude in the morning that something good is going to happen today, even if it's realizing how blessed we are, then, that's a good day. This is a difficult world to live in. One of those difficulties is the low paying jobs that don't allow a man to provide for his family. This, of course, causes stress and anger and discord, and affects the children as well.
Much in the same way as if you are sullen and feel defeated, negative things will happen. When you are going through an experience or a situation that is stressful, and lingers for a while, you can get lost in the undertow. There's always going to be something to be afraid of. You have children, and they move out on their own, and you no longer have your eye on them every minute. That's scary. Will they be able to afford the world? Will people be nice to them? Are they lonely sometimes? You miss them coming in and out. You miss hearing, "Mom?"
You miss hearing your son play the guitar, knowing he's good, and he taught himself. These are legitimate feelings, and need to be felt and worked through, not stuffed somewhere deep inside, but to believe in God, to have Faith, to believe in the good, to feel the positive energy you posses, and to remember that tomorrow, it will get better, is a huge help. It is hope expressed in a different way. Isn't it hope that gets us through each day? Hope that something can get better. We can have everything we want, and be quite humble in our gratefulness that we love our family, our home, our pets, and ourselves, but there is always something going on that upsets the apple cart in our brains.
Ideally, they happen one at a time, but more often, we get hit with a lot to deal with at once. We have to stay steady, and deal with each problem as it comes, systematically if possible. If we can keep our emotions in check, it's even better in taking care of a circumstance. I think it takes experience in pain to learn how to keep your emotions separate from the problem. After getting beat up enough times by your emotions getting crushed because of a situation, it gets easier to leave the emotions to the side, and just deal with the business at hand. It's much healthier for mind, body, and spirit to be able to deal with life on a daily basis, always believing that tomorrow it's going to get better.
It's not a trick, because we know why we are saying this to ourselves before we turn out the light, and tomorrow very well could get better, and we sure do hope so, and we say our prayers if so inclined, and go off to bed. If our attitude is one of the things that turn people away, we can certainly work on that, change some of our bad habits, and fit in better, therefore feel better, therefore, tomorrow will get better. If we are a gossip, and now no one on the street will talk to us, we can stop doing it, and slowly ingratiate ourselves back into the circle. If you are a phony, and everyone knows it, you can practice being who you are, not who you think people will be impressed by, and want to be your friends. When we have bad days, it's hard to remember what the good days feel like. But we instinctively know they're better than the bad ones.
Of course we need to make each second of our life worthy of it's creation, but we know we don't always do that. We're too busy worrying. And rushing, and being depressed at times. Sometimes we just need to take a break from our routine and do nothing. Therapy in itself. And always that mantra in the front of our minds, giving us hope, tomorrow will be get better.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Yes we can always be hopeful that tomorrow will be better. Good article SusanPlease log in to respond to this comment.hi david, thank you. allowing myself to think things will get better is helping me maintain. hope is comforting, thanks for reading and commenting, david, best regards, suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
Good article, Sue. I agree with you. Our attitudes definitely make a difference in how we perceive things, even on a crummy day. If we look for it, we will find something good and in turn we have hope.Please log in to respond to this comment.Hi LM, thanks for reading and responding. hope is essential. best regards, sue thomPlease log in to respond to this comment.
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