Living Today for a Better Tomorrow

Today is a day that happens to be filled with inescapable sadness and negativity. It’s a day that’s laden with intolerable news about the loss of multiple lives. Of course, social media never fails to share more sadness than joy, and does an excellent job propagating the saddest of incidents, but I honestly think that life suddenly decides to remind us of death’s inevitable occurrence (since we unexplainably tend to forget such a fact) to help shift our focus to what really matters. It’s interesting how we always exempt ourselves from the worst but never the best. We always sympathize with those who have gone through a rough patch of some sort or lost a loved one, all while assuming the unlikeliness of it happening to us. Life does a pretty good job of limiting our vision so we only focus on the “here and now” thereby completely  overlooking the hereafter. There’s so much evil in this world, and as my mother repeatedly claims: “Today’s world is more dangerous and less blessed than my and your childhood years.” And though we see how people lose their lives due to a specific fatal disease, war, or an accident, we still tend to focus on material and not invest as much as we should on improving the quality of our being. I think we’re so blessed to witness both the best and worst that this world has to offer simply because observing the good and the bad evidently means that we’re still alive, and also because such events should be an example from which life’s most significant and valuable lessons are extrapolated. It is through life’s frequent, harsh exemplification of this world’s cruelty that we learn things that cannot be taught or learned otherwise. So, this is a reminder to invest in yourself because a better you will ultimately bring about a better world. Because this world is an unjust place, make an effort to make the most of your resources by reaching out to the poor and needy. Life’s financial and professional accomplishments are undoubtedly of great meaning, but creating a better you by generously and productively enhancing the lives of others or even committing to a cause that may in fact transform our world as we know it, is priceless. Our time here on earth is precious, yet limited. So, let’s be active world citizens by devoting our time to more than just our wants, needs, and desires. Let’s generate a legacy that will make this world a better place for future generations.