Dissecting Quotes #14

            This is the fourteenth edition of the series "Dissecting Quotes", where I choose a quote and briefly describe what I think the quote means and how to apply it to our everyday lives. I hope the insight a high schooler can provide can help brighten a day or get you thinking.

"Always remember that the future

 comes one day at a time." 

-Dean Acheson

           Many people promise change. Sometimes presidential candidates, sometimes Senators, sometimes parents. We all need some change, and while some change is good, some change cannot be good. Sometimes change is pushed too fast, and there are consequences for the lack of patience. We look too far to the future, but we need to refocus our mentality on today, and when we are able to live each day as a single day, we can get somewhere. We will achieve change, and the change will be good. Unless the change you want to see is destroying the world, or something similar. Just kidding, but even if we are trying to destroy the world, if we live our lives one day at a time, we will see that destroying the world is probably not the best thing to do. So the best thing we can do is to take one day as a time.