Dissecting Quotes #15

          This is the fifteenth 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.

"What you can do today can

improve all your tommorows." 

-Ralph Marston

          We are always told that live like there is no tomorrow. That can be good advice, but it also can be destructive. If we really did live like there was no tomorrow, we would be in such a hole the next day that we would not be able to survive. Even if we did survive, we would not be able to live like that for long. Ralph Marston disagrees with this statement, he says what we choose to do today can change our future, improving it to how you want it to be. This quote, when reflected upon, is instrumental in everyday decisions and things we do. Some things we choose to do are very near sighted, and if we put our actions in perspective, we would realize that what we are doing is maybe not the best thing to be doing. If we choose to do something productive instead of wasting our time on silly things, our future can turn out to be better and more enjoyable than it would have been.