Originally Posted by
Fly N Buy 
This Sanskrit proverb, the epigraph of the book 24 Hours a Day has much wisdom for me as I hit speed bumps from the past. Most of those are my ego thinking somehow "things" could have been different.
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well-lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope
I feel the same way Free Owl does sometimes.
The best I can do is hold onto -- sometimes desperately cling to -- the sentiments Fly N Buy describes. It helps.