Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
Interpretation
Cherish each day as a valuable opportunity rather than saving it for later.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present and appreciating each day as a unique and valuable experience. Regina Brett suggests that time is fleeting and uncertain, urging us not to postpone our joy and fulfillment for an ambiguous future, but to embrace life as it comes.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of making the most of our time.
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
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