When you take things one day at a time going to sleep becomes a goal instead of just an event. If you can make it to the end of the day, if you can get there walking or breathing or just mildly conscious, you’ve made it haven’t you? And that’s all that counts.
This is sometimes a necessary way of coping. It can be the most viable option for survival. To set and achieve the small goal for yourself of being able to struggle through the things that are expected of you, be it work or school or family life, for a mere twenty-four hours provides the motivational edification that will encourage you through the next twenty-four hours. In this way humans can pull themselves through many difficult situations.
I’ve found myself using this technique of late. It has helped to a certain degree but there is one hole I’ve found in its effectiveness.
When the day is over, when you’ve done all you could do and you lay your head down to rest what do you do if the rest won’t come? What do you do when the day is over but you struggle on? When the sorrow and trial that you’re facing doesn’t care that you’ve lived another twenty-four hours or 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds, however you measure, what do you do then?
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