September 24, 2025- We are today's choices

The beginning is always today. 

~Mary Wollstonecraft

Yesterday is over. We can take from it what we wish. We can use the experience of it to inform today’s choices.

We were not perfect yesterday. We made choices the best version of us would not make. Are we willing to reflect honestly on those choices today? Are we willing to meet those reflections with grace? Are we willing to avoid the urge to admonish or punish ourselves for those choices? Are we willing to change those behaviors today in some small, sustainable way?

We got some things perfectly right yesterday. Are we willing to take ownership of that? Are we willing to realize that our own choices brought us some success and happiness? Are we willing to acknowledge the fact that we don’t require intervention from the universe to make positive things happen in our lives?

We can set down baggage from yesterday and walk away from it. Today does not need to be a replica. We have agency over our choices. But we do not have to deconstruct ourselves and start from nothing. We can take the value and wisdom of our lived experience and use it to reflect on the behaviors to keep and those to walk away from. We are today’s choices.