Too late for Happiness?

I just came back from watching BBC's production of the Good Doctor...I loved it. I think this is the best production i've seen in the 4years i've been here. INCREDIBLE ACTING!
Coming from these plays though i always end up thinking the night away. This time i am thinking about the secion of the play entiled Too Late for Happiness...this part of the play was about an elderly gentelman and an elderly lady, both widowed, who end up sitting on the same bench day after day..they secretly like each other but when the gentleman finally gets the nerves to ask her out for tea...she says "Yes,....but not today." This short story has some singing in it too and so they sing about how it isn't "too late for them to be happy...but not today."

There is a line in the song where the gentleman says that there is "always tomorrow" but there isn't always tomorrow...today is what we have...and i think that in our busy society if we all really lived for today..maybe there wouldn't be much of a society..busy mom's and dad's would be playing with their children instead of working in the office. Children would be playing outside instead sitting in the classroom...the gentleman who secretly likes the gentle lady would ask her out instead of waiting for tomorrow.

No, tomorrow is never a guaranteed thing, we learn this everytime a loved one dies or when we read the news paper...but we really can't seem to be able to live for today because what if tomorrow does actually come and we aren't prepared for the bumps.

I guess we can't really win, we either get caught up in worrying about tomorrow and miss the opportunity to ask the girl out, or to go play on the swing sets or we live so much for today that we aren't prepared when tomorrow brings us a car in the ditch and an F on the paper.

So, what is the solution...find a way to take a chance..like asking that girl on the date and find a way to do the paper so you won't get an F.

Be responsible, yet enjoy your responsibility.

Laugh, play, cry, get angry, learn to give a kiss..take the few todays that we have and enjoy, yet be ready to live for the tomorrow (if it comes.)