I was re-reading the fourth book in Montgomery’s Anne
series, ‘Anne of Windy Populars’ again this weekend and I came across a passage
I liked where young Elizabeth is talking about tomorrow. “The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but
Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will
just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things
will happen…wonderful things.” This quote had me
thinking about how we often spend most of our time longing for tomorrow and
everything that it could bring...something that I have been doing a lot of
lately. We have the tendency to paint out glorious futures for ourselves and
forget about the moment that we are in. Still, I understand why Elizabeth
thought of ‘Tomorrow,’ as some magical place. For her, it was the dream world
that she would reach when she grew up and escaped her strict great-grandmother
and ‘The Woman,’ and was free to do as she pleased. The quote also suggests
that her land of tomorrow will one day be reality, that the future has gifts in
store for us.
Can I grasp a part of tomorrow in
today? Do you wait for the dream to manifest or do you live within it right
now? Maybe there’s a balance, and though you wait in the rain, the struggles of
yesterday can be washed away one by one. Perhaps we are granted pieces of
tomorrow every day, until we learn to live from a place where taking those
risks leaves us unafraid, no matter how many times we might fall.
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