:: Toilet Wisdom ::
I read this every morning in BMTC Falcon Coy


"When I was teaching basketball, I urged my players to try their hardest to improve on that very day, to make that practice a masterpiece. Too often we get distracted by what is outside our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. This rule is even more important in life than in basketball. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be"
-John Wooden

The picture is not great at all so I typed it all out. It was pasted up in my platoon's toilet on the inside of cubicle 5's door. It's ironic how in a place that stank and was full of shit that something so profound could exist. Ha.
How I interpret it is that we should never let the past burden us with regrets about what could have been but instead live for today and what the next day will bring. We cannot control or say for certain what will happen in the future but we can attempt to influence it by our actions today. So why sob over spilt milk when we can always get another bottle of milk later? Possibilities are endless if we apply ourselves in the right way. Nobody expects you to become a millionaire overnight. These things take time and slowly bit by bit, we'll get there in the end...