The new year usually brings thoughts of new plans and adventures. Places to go. People to meet. Ideas to explore. Now we are in the middle - the year half behind us and yet still half lays ahead.
Every "yes" we choose consequently means "no" to everything else, at least to some degree. I often think of Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken, quoted from https://www.poetryfoundation.org.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Our "now" choices affect the rest of our lives - and eternity. Even the attitudes we adopt influence our health, our relationships and our futures. While we celebrate today, we are making memories for tomorrow and choosing a path into "forever after".
Today is a good day to celebrate!