The Bank

Imagine there is a bank, which credits your account each morning with $86,400.00. It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do?

Draw out every cent of course?

Well everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.

It carries over no balance.

It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you.

Each night it burns the remains of the day.

If you fail to use the day's deposit, the loss is yours.

There is no going back.

There is no drawing against the 'tomorrow'.

You must live in the present on today's deposits.

Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success.

The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realise the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realise the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realise the value of ONE WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realise the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage labourer who has kids to feed.

To realise the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realise the value of ONE MINUTE, as a person who has missed the train.

To realise the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who has avoided an accident.

To realise the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask a person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment you have.

And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special; special enough to have your time... and remember time waits for no one.

Yesterday is History.

Tomorrow is a Mystery.

Today is a gift,

That is why it's called a PRESENT.