wisely said: "The load of tomorrow, added to that of
yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter." And
so it does.
Overburdening, by trying to carry too many
loads all at once, will crush you physically, destroy you
mentally and wreck you emotionally.
Yet most people carry the '10ad of tomorrow"
in their imaginations: "What will I do about that"...
"Suppose this should happen?"... "When will I find
time to do so many things? ... see so many people? ...
go so many places?'" And so on and on.
They '1ive out" in their imaginations today-
all the work they are going to do tomorrow. Thus they add
tomorrow's work-load to today's work-load. And not only
tomorrow's, but the day after, and the day after.
Then they do yesterday's work all over again
today. "Suppose I had said this instead of that?" ...
"Perhaps, if I had just done it differently." ... "Why didn't
I think of it then?" ... And again, on and on.
They re-do all of yesterday's work today and
add this burden to the imagined burden of tomorrow's
work. And not only yesterday's work, but usually the work
of the day before that ... and the day before that.
But they must do today's work-when they are
already mentally re-doing the work of countless yesterdays
and living, in their imaginations, the work and dangers of
countless tomorrows. No wonder men and women break
under the strain I