Today, i came up with a theory to encourage me to take one day at a time. Each day when i wake up, i would think of myself in a food buffet whereby you get one plate, and you can fill it up with whateva food you like as long as you have space left on your plate. Each piece of food represents, every decision, worry and other things to do and think about during the day. The thing is you only get one plate, which represents your day. There are some things to keep in mind.
1. You can choose what to eat on your plate – eg if you come across something you know is bad for you and would only make you feel worse ( a grudge against someone), then you can choose to put that on your plate, or rather put something else more nutritious on your plate.
2. Sometimes your food may get spoilt by something eg ants, or you find ingredients unexpectedly in your salad that you hate. (a crisis during the day), you can chuck the whole plate out and eat nothing (ruin your whole day), only chuck the spoilt food away and replace it with nice food (not let the bad things ruin your day)
3. You don’t have to decide everything you want to eat in the beginning, you could go back to the food buffet during the day. Eg in the morning you might feel like cereal, but by lunch may a pasta. (i.e we don’t know all the decisions we are going to have to make during the day)
4. Sometimes you can turn something bad into good. Eg i hate spinach, i can choose to chuck it out or mix it with some other vegetables and dressing and it will become something yummy. eg, if you are feeling lonely, you can choose to ignore it, or you could deal with it – ring up a friend/ talk to parents/ etc.
5. THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT: You can’t have left overs from the day before, or leave some food aside for the next day. This is because food left overs are disgusting, and you’ll have a whole new food buffet tommorow so no point in leavng anything aside. Therefore you can only worry/think about the decisions you need to make today, as tommorow there will be a whole new set of decisions etc.
