Although I’m having quite the busy day (yay Monday’s) as well as the joy of having midterms this week :) I could not let today’s Hayom Yom go by without bringing attention to it.
Hayom Yom Yud Zayin Cheshvan
“Time must be guarded.
It is urgent to ‘accept the yoke of Torah.’
Every bit of time, every day that passes, is not just a day but a life's concern.
Days go by; as the Talmud says (Yerushalmi Berachot 1:1), "A day enters and a day departs, a week enters etc.,... a month etc.,... a year etc.,..."
My father quoted the Alter Rebbe: ‘A summer day and a winter night are a year.’”
Time is so precious; we hear that all the time, we think about it for a minute or two, and then life goes on.
How many of us though, really truly take to heart just how valuable time is?
Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.
What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course!
Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is time.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the records of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the tomorrow.
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
To realize the value of ONE LIFETIME, ask someone who has missed his or her chance.
To realize the value of A SISTER, ask someone who doesn't have one.
To realize the value of TEN YEARS, ask a newly divorced couple.
To realize the value of FOUR YEARS, ask a graduate.
To realize the value of A FRIEND, lose one.
And remember, time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Happy Monday everyone, may this week be one where no minute goes by wasted!
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