i am a someday-er. someday i’ll get a gym membership. someday i’ll go to africa. someday i’ll visit amber and chris in austrailia. someday i’ll take a typography class. someday i’ll get a master’s degree. someday i’ll start do more design work. someday. someday. someday.

and i know i’m not alone. we are a someday-generation. or perhaps a someday-culture. i hear and see it all over the place. someday i’ll retire and travel the world. someday we will have kids. someday i’ll find a job i actually like. i think this my be problematic on many levels. this mentality lends itself to complacency and an unhealthy perspective on the future. it puts us in a sort of survival mode and causes us to neglect the here and the now, the present. it prevents us from being content in our everydayness.

now, i do realise that we can’t do everything we want to do straight away. we can’t “get crazy” and start running off to foreign lands and buying houses and such. but i do think we can change our mind-sets to value, cherish and live in the present and to no longer look to tomorrow as though it will make all our dreams come true. what if we found peace in our present-ness and starting leaving as though our someday was today? i wonder how that would change our morale, our restlessness, our discontent.

of course, there is something comforting about being able to hope in the future. hope for relief, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for change and growth and forward movement. so yes, our someday mentality can be a source of peace and comfort when the going gets rough in the present. i think that if many of us didn’t have such hope, the heres and the nows of today would be all too gloomy and terrifying to confront. so in some ways, we must look toward tomorrow and find joy in the reality that there will indeed be a better day…

what are some of your “somedays” that you would like to turn into “todays”? how can you be intentional and proactive in living in the present and being content in your everydayness?