Life and Second Chances

 I was just shopping for a new SKIN COVER for my laptop and saw this saying:

LIFE always offers you a second chance - it is called TOMORROW.

I absolutely love that and it resonated with me immediately.  It caused me to think in a rapid fire manner about why something so simple seems so profound?  I think it is because of how we view life, in general.

I find we tend to think of life as a bundle of events that WILL happen - we will be born, we will make it through childhood, we will become an adult, we will experiences each decade, we will grow old, we will die.  When we think of things that happen as part of that bundle, we project out our beliefs of the impact of any one event, instead of viewing events as something that happened TODAY and TOMORROW has the capacity to be completely different.

We often believe if I failed at something today, I am also doomed to failure tomorrow, and the next and the next.  It is not ever viewed as an activity that occurred that has the same probabilities of remaining the same as it has of changing. Perhaps it is because of how we are taught to look at our lives from an early age.  In the context of the bundle... not just living each day for today as it may be the only day we get.  

It is the only promise we have.  If we want to do tomorrow differently, we can.  Life beyond today is nothing but second chances.  Or first chances at a new way, a new approach, a new thought pattern...