Yes, I know, you're thinking it's a cliché, a banal phrase, the title of a book or a movie, but... have you ever really stopped to reflect on how true it is, on how something so "obvious" actually isn't at all? Yes, because we are always projecting ourselves into the past (regrets, remorse, lost moments...) or into the future, focused on achieving that thing, the one that cannot wait, the one that is the most important in the world (because everyone has their own world), the one thing that is the last to be sorted out and then...
We are always projected in the race towards this and that, breathless, putting everything else aside (and by "everything else" I mean the people we love the most), taking it for granted, without realizing that time passes inexorably, and never comes back. Children grow up (and very quickly too!), people age, some opportunities never return; in short, many things pass us by without us even noticing!
Time really cannot be bought; it is a universal law that applies to every living being on earth (fortunately!).
Sometimes, it is Time itself that "collides" with us. Life is so unpredictable. It knows how to play nasty tricks on us, when you least expect it, when you're not prepared at all, and you don't even have time to breathe when... time runs out. Time is up. Day After Now.
One day, someone wrote a poem (apparently erroneously attributed to Pirandello), from which I draw just a few lines that touched my heart:
"And love looked at time and laughed.
Because it knew it didn't need it.
So while time was dying, love remained."
You have one thing left to rush and do: do you accept the challenge? Hurry to live without missing anything, live in the here and now.
This is the real challenge. Finding the moment, the Time to make up for not having any more time.
Now, with DayAfterNow.