I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I'm still in the middle of it. This habit1people around me. Often my2wouldn't be confined(局限)just to the books I read but also to what others were3as well. Finally, one day my daughter told me with a little4. "Dad, please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!"
At times I didn't5this bad habit to just reading books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my life and6what to do months and even years from now instead of7each day as it is intended. I knew that the book of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many8left to go.9, that didn't stop me from trying to write the10half-way through. Time and again, I would11jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it12so I could reach that storybook happily ever after ending. Life, however, doesn't13like that. It loves to14us, and you never know what new problem or opportunity each new day will bring.
Life has often had to 15me to slow down. Recently, when I found myself16to that bad habit of rushing ahead and living in the17again, I felt a special voice gently telling me," Live one day at a time." Then I smiled, and turned the book of my life back to the18page. Each of us has to live the book of life one page and one day at a time. Each of us has to write it 19 and moment by moment. We have to trust that it will bring our 20 to its perfect end.
