Live One Day at a Time

A few days back, I was reading 'Last Lecture' by Prof. Randy Puasch, the man who came in limelight an year back due to his valor and passion to live while fighting the deadliest disease, cancer. While I was flipping through its pages, my attention was caught by a sentence wherein he was portraying the qualities of his wife. He mentioned that she believes in living one day at a time. My focus was stuck there. Even after flipping a few more pages, I was compelled to come back to that same page and read that sentence again. Why was I so much attracted to that sentence? I do not remember much of the well-written composition except this sentence. What does it mean to live one day at a time? A laymen's analogy would be to eat bread bit by bit rather than trying to eat all at once. I am not sure if I am following this principle but I am somehow interested in taking it at heart! If we live one day at a time, we become free from the shackles of worries about the future. No one has seen the future but the present. So we should strive to take one day and live it by doing our best. The 'best' need not be something very great but something that can be as small as cleaning our room, calling a friend and making him/her laugh and feel good, praying for someone's happiness, going to a place of your choice and feeling good about it, reading a book, writing your thougths, and assessing yourself everyday and thank GOD for living in this world! We should start taking an inventory of ourselves at the end of each day by asking ourself 'Did I live just today?'