Start Today
"What can youdo when you have done nothing but mess up your whole life long?" Thesewere the words I heard when I1 the TV the other day. They were coming fromone of the talk shows2 are so popular on TV these days. I started toturn the channel but the words I had3make me stop for a moment.I4 the speaker of them. Hecouldn't have been more than 18 years old, but already he was writing off (认为) his life as a uselesswaste.
I wanted to shout at him, "You're not5 yet!"
It is6sadthat so many people cannot get beyond(摆脱)their pasts and live7the present. There are so many people like that talkshow guest. There are people still in their teens8 their lives are over. There are people intheir twenties who already think they have9 the boat to success and happiness. There arepeople in their thirties and forties who sit around complaining that life haspassed them by. I want to shout to them all, "Wake up! You're still10!What have you done today?" If you want a happy life,you can't dwell on(纠缠于) your past11. If you want joy and love in your life, you have to choose them today. God gives us a new chance atlife every time we wake up in the morning. It is up to us to catch it.
Today12 be thebeginning of a new life for each of us. We can choose joy right now. We canshare love today. We can start to live happily at this moment. It doesn'tmatter how hard our past has been. Our present can be full of joy and ourfuture can be full of13. It doesn't matter if we are eight14 eighty—we can still make our lives15.Life isn't over until your last heartbeat. Start today, then, to make yourheart beat with joy, love and light.
