My Favorite Day of the Week Is Tomorrow (standard:humor, 900 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jul 07 2019	Views/Reads: 1455/1054	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I need to learn how to appreciate each day and not push things off until tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day, but I certainly have no guarantee that I will see it. I need to learn how to “rejoice and be glad” in the day that is before me.

It was one of those weeks when the more I completed, the more I had to
do. These are not my favorite kind of weeks. So frustrating. 

During these weeks, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage finagles her
infamous “Honey-Do-List” in my direction. Because I am busy doing other 
things and distracted, I do not actually see what she is doing. 

She can slip one of her “To-Do” jobs on to my schedule without my
knowing it. I see it on my schedule and assume it is one more job to 
do. When I see it, I say to myself, “I'll do that tomorrow.” Then I can 
move on to my next project. 

My favorite saying has been, “Why do today what you can put off until
tomorrow?” 

It has become a habit with me. The wife will ask me if I have time to do
something and I always say, “Not now, but I can do it tomorrow.” Of 
course, I am hoping that by the time tomorrow comes she will have 
forgotten that little job. 

It seems that the older I get, the more I am pushing everything off
until tomorrow. Then, when tomorrow comes, I push it off until the next 
tomorrow and soon, it is too late to do it. Do not let this get out, 
but that has been my plan all the time. 

I seem to have gotten away with it until recently. I love it when a plan
comes together, but when it falls apart, it certainly is no laughing 
matter. 

Pushing things off until tomorrow does have a good side to it. Many
things I am supposed to do are not that significant and if they are not 
done, there is no consequence. My life sometimes gets all caught up in 
doing things I do not have to do, and I know who I have to blame for 
that. Just saying. 

This started when I was in grade school. When I had homework to do and
for some reason I did not do it, I always promised the teacher that I 
will do it tomorrow. I got away with it for a while. 

When I was going to grade school, the teachers were so very smart. I do
not know what they are like today, but then they could catch up with 
somebody like me with very little effort. My teacher finally caught up 
with me. 

“So,” my teacher said as I told her that I would have to do my homework
tomorrow, “this is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday. Tomorrow is 
here and so now you must do the work.” 

All I could do was just stare at her. Never for one moment did I think
tomorrow would ever come. My teacher was a good teacher so she taught 
me that when I put things off until tomorrow, tomorrow finally shows 
up. According to her, my tomorrow had caught up with me. 

I had to forfeit many recesses to catch up with all the home work I
pushed off until “tomorrow.” 

Of course, it was not long until my wife caught up to my “tomorrow
strategy” like my teacher did. 

One morning she got up a little bit before me and got the coffee going.
I got up and stumbled into the kitchen. There she stood with a huge 
sign that read, “Today is your Tomorrow you talked about Yesterday. 
Welcome to Tomorrow.” 

To see this before having my morning coffee was rather alarming. At
first, I had no idea what she was talking about. Yesterday, Today, 
Tomorrow, what was she trying to say. I just was not on the same page 
as she was. In fact, I was not in the same book. 

“What are you talking about?” I said about as confused as I have ever
been in my life. 

“Remember,” she said rather seriously, “all the things you told me that
you would do tomorrow? Well, it's tomorrow.” 



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