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- The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow The sun will come out tomorrow, tomorrow!! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow… Hi!! What's going on y'all? Y'all, that's y'all! Welcome to another episode of WANZOLOGY!! I am your host, The Wanz, and I'm suffering from severe delirium at the moment because life is just fast and furious and not stopping for anyone or anything, and oh my God!! Yes, the holiday season is upon us and we are in it. Have you made your list? Have you made your list of what you're gonna get somebody? Have you figured out what gifts you're going to be giving this year? Me either. It's rough, but that's okay, that's another topic. Today, probably against my better judgment, I am going to speak about tomorrow. You remember that old song: “The Sun will come out tomorrow, Bet your bottom dollar, that tomorrow There'll be stars…”, or whatever, the ultimate optimistic song. “Tomorrow. Tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow You're always a day away.” Which implies that however things are at the moment, tomorrow they'll be better, ha-ha, or will they just be different? Or maybe they'll just feel the same, do you really know? Do you know for sure? Are you, are you knowledgeable in what tomorrow's gonna bring? Tellin’ the future are ya? Well, you don't. You might want to, but I'm quite sure that you are not the freak of nature that knows how to tell the future. But if you could, what do you think you would do with such a power? If you knew what was going to happen to you, say two hours before it actually happened, what would you do with that information, hmm? Would you live life out loud more, or would you draw everything in and live your life quieter? Would you use it to your advantage financially or whatever? Or would you just do good with it and be the Samaritan that nobody knows how he does it, but he always seems to be at the right place at the right time? It's nice to dream about. It's always nice to dream. Heck yeah, heck yeah!! But the reality is, we have no idea what tomorrow's going to bring. Now, at the time of this recording, the Great Northwest is stuck inside of an ‘atmospheric river’. I looked at the satellite photographs last night on the weather report, and man, there was just a steady stream just south of Hawaii, curling northeast, all the way up and straight into Western Washington. Some places in the state got four, four and a half inches of rain today. Rivers are cresting and people are tripping and nobody can drive and… but that was yesterday. Today, it didn't rain at all. Yesterday. It was raining, cats, dogs, horses, all of it, and it was windy and I was afraid the power was gonna go out, but today, it was cloudy, there were a couple of sun breaks, it wasn't freezing, it was an atypical November day. It just wasn't raining. So what's the difference between yesterday and today? Not much. Not much at all. What's the difference between today and tomorrow gonna be? Not much. Not much at all. Now, why do I say that? I say that because as you well know, a day is 24 hours long, each hour has 60 minutes in it. There's a finite amount of time that you'll have to do or persevere or have the chance to excel at, fail at, or even somewhere in the middle to get all of the things you want to get done, done. To see all the people that you might wanna see in the places you want to go. What's frightening is that this cycle we've gotten so used to it, we don't even notice it. It’s currently winter-ish up here in the Great Northwest, and it gets dark at like 4:30 in the afternoon. People hate it. A lot of people hate it. I don't really care. Yeah, there are people who, they have a seasonal depressive event or something like that. All I know is that it makes the latter part of the day longer when it's dark so early. So it might ‘feel’ like 10 o'clock, but it's actually 6:15 PM. Now, why am I explaining all of this? “The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar.”, we are told and conditioned to believe that no matter what is going on in our world, we only have this day to do it. We can plan for tomorrow, we can go back to yesterday and figure out what we didn't get done and what we did wrong or did right, or you know, all those little things, but, when it comes right down to it, you only get whatever day you're in and that's it. A friend of mine told me once, “You only get one bite at that apple…”, you get an apple a day, and you only get one bite at that apple, so you have to make the most of it. I have never been one to be really, really optimistic. As a kid, being optimistic brought me a lot of pain in the form of disappointment. I stopped looking forward to things because things never really panned out or they didn't go the way that I wanted them to, and you know, when you're a kid, you think everything is supposed to go the way you want it to, but that's not how the world works. As I've gotten older, I've noticed that the world is full of circumstances, conditions, and what are those? Those are things that make life either extremely easy or extremely challenging, or somewhere in between. Like, yesterday with all the rain and the wind, I'm pretty sure that driving somewhere on a freeway was slow going because there were a lot more people who were more afraid than I would've been, so they would've been driving slower and it would've taken longer to get places, so because everybody's being safe, and I got nothing against that, I got nothing against that at all. Contrast that with today, one day later. Without all the rain and all the wind, without all that ‘guck’ coming down from the sky, I don't think there were as many traffic mishaps. Traffic flowed better, not great, but better. Now, why is that? Because the circumstances, regarding weather that is, changed. Look at your job, i f you have a job, you've been going to this job and you've been going every day, five days a week for ‘X’ amount of years, and you pretty much know what to expect going to and from your job, right? But what would you do if when you rounded the corner to get to your job and the building had burned to the ground? What would you do if just by chance you were working from home and all of a sudden you could not get into the job to do your work? Circumstance. That's a circumstance. Yesterday was just like yesterday and it won't be like any other day. Today is just like today and it won't be like any other day. And tomorrow's the same thing, i t'll be another day provided we wake up, it'll be another day, but it'll be different. It'll have its own, whether its own vibe. It's very, very interesting to me how we perceive time. The phrase the sun will come out tomorrow has not disappointed. The sun is always out when it's daytime. There are people who are convinced that it needs to be a bright, clear sky in order for the sun to be out, but if you know your science, like most of you do, the world revolves and sometimes the world is facing the sun and it's daytime. So why would you have to bet your bottom dollar? “It's only a day away”, says the song. Is that good or bad? Does that mean something specific or is it just an observation? Well, I think that depends on your circumstance. Life is circumstantial for everybody. Not everyone is going through exactly the same thing at the same time or at the same pace. So it might feel like a Tuesday, even though it's Friday, or it might feel like a Sunday even though it's Monday. And you know what I mean by that? Some days don't feel like the day it is. You don't like it? Don't know how to deal with it? Relax. There'll be another one along again tomorrow, and hopefully you'll wake up for that one. I had to learn that one day don't make a month and one month, don't make a year. I had to come to grips with time, that great human construct. I had to figure out how was I going to get through life better than I was getting through it, because I would tend to look at the clock all the time, and that made time go slower, and I felt more and more persecuted. I just got sad, because it just seemed like a day would never end. I had to change my perspective and how I did that was I looked at each hour in a day, like most people look at a day, 60 minutes. You can do a lot in 60 minutes or you can do nothing. The choice is yours. You can get a lot of things done in an hour, or maybe you can't get anything done in an hour, but an hour, four 15 minute segments, you can divide it up any way you want. But why would you do that? The reason is humans now have probably the shortest attention span they've ever had. In order to get something done, one has to kinda focus. Maybe not a lot, but yeah, you gotta focus and then you have to also keep track of what you've already done. Cooking dinner, great example. Beginning, middle end, right? You take everything out, you put everything in pan, then they cook and then put it on the table, you eat and then it's over. Just any given process, beginning, middle, end. Well so is a day, it has a beginning, it has a middle, and it has an end. How you divide up all that time, that's on you, and if it's not going the way that you would like it to go, If you're not in a positive circumstance, don't you think that you have the power to change how you're perceiving your day? I used to tell people, “You know, you have the power and the privilege to start your day over any damn time you like!”, that has been my experience. There are times that I've had crappy days as I have gotten done taking out the contact lenses, taking medication for the evening, brush my teeth, and getting into bed, and about to turn off the light. I will stop, get out of the bed, go back into the bathroom, close my eyes, and then when I open my eyes, I pretend it's morning. I pretend that the day has started over. What have I done? I haven't really done anything 'cause the day just started. So what am I gonna do? I have no bloody idea. One thing I do know is that now when I go to bed, I don't feel the same way as I did before. I changed my perspective on the day and started it over. Now, if it's been a great day, well then I'll just go back and relive the greatness of that day. We all have ‘those’ days where it feels like you're trying to ice skate up hill. These are the times when you have to remember you have the power and the privilege to start your day over anytime you want. So the song, ‘tomorrow is only a day away’, is not quite accurate now, is it? You may not be able to change time to take a Tuesday and make it into a Wednesday and a Wednesday into a Friday, but I bet you you could take 2:00 PM when things feel crappy and by 2:05 it's like you just got to work and just finished breakfast and you're raring to go! You have that power, you have that privilege. How do you do it? Well, that's up to you. How are you going to change the perception of your circumstance? Because at any given moment, that's where you are in the middle of one circumstance or another, or a couple at the same time, but you still have the power to navigate what's going on with you in said circumstances. Never, ever, ever, ever, EVER downplay how much power you have over everything inside of your skin! You just have to remember the greatest superpower that you have is choice. And you can choose to make it yesterday, or you can choose to make it tomorrow, or you can make no choice at all. One way or another, you're gonna choose, and I hope, I hope for you, the sun does come out tomorrow. For me, the sun is gonna come out in about 20 minutes. It'll be tomorrow for me, and I'll pretend that I got up getting my morning routine together and then when I feel better than I did before, it'll be time for bed. Even though most of the day was crappy, it still ended good because I started it over. I could have started it over earlier, but I didn't, I got to it when I got to it. Remind yourself often you can change how your day's going. You can change how you deal with your circumstance. You have that power and you have that privilege. Cool, man! I am going to do something very, very good for myself because I've earned it. You can do the same thing, and I hope you do!! See ya next week!! Later!!