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There was once a very active boy
who fell and broke his leg. He could run again in the spring, the
doctors said, but only if he stayed in bed for an entire month and
kept his leg still.
At first the boy fought the
rule, but he found that the more he thought about things he
couldn't do, the more tired and angry he felt.
His
parents put in a phone by his bed and friends called every day.
He'd never much liked talking on the phone, but he felt better when
they called.
He wrote letters and got
replies, and was surprised at what fun it was. Usually, he didn't
have time to write letters.
He learned to play chess and
began to enjoy reading.
His days were slower and
quieter than he'd been used to, but he learned a month really isn't
a very long time.
When spring came, he was
running again, a little more joyfully than before.
When we can learn to accept
our troubles, we find, like the boy, that they are just packages in
which new growth and discoveries are wrapped.
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For no actual process happens
twice;
only we meet the same sort of
occasion again.
-- Suzanne K. Langer
Today is not going to be
like yesterday. Nor will it resemble tomorrow.
Each day is special and promises
us many new ideas -- perhaps the chance to make a friend, or to
learn something interesting from a teacher or a book.
Some activities today will be
familiar, just like playing a game for the second, third, or tenth
time is familiar.
And yet, the way each player
moves the pieces around the board will be different.
The excitement about today is
that it is full of surprises.
Every thing we do, every
conversation we have, will not be repeated in just the same way
again, and this reminds us how special each of us is.
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