You know what’s interesting? “Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad dinner.” This is just genius! It’s easy to absorb it in the morning, with optimism and a cup of coffee. In the morning, you can hope that you will have time to do everything you planned, that this day will be at least a little better than yesterday, that you will once again be able to run in the gym... at least to the elevator. But at dinner, hope turns into something completely different. It keeps you awake because your head starts to analyze restlessly: “Why didn’t I do yoga? Why did I miss my meeting with friends again? Why couldn’t I at least read 5 pages of a useful book?” This is no longer hope, but self-accusation! It hangs on you like an anxious conscience, pushing you to ask: “Were you really doing everything you could?” — well, because by 10 p.m. your body decides that you have done absolutely nothing. Here you have your evening hope, with a hint of disappointment and fuss.
And here the rule comes into play: in order not to take all this with you into the night, it is better to leave it until the morning. Because the evening is a time for relaxation, and not for thinking about how you did not live up to yesterday’s expectations.
So, advice on hope:
Breakfast is the time for bold plans. If you decide to start the day with the thought that “everything will be fine,” feel free to try. In the morning, everything is possible, because the world is just waking up!
Dinner is a moment for humility. You know, if you still didn't manage to do everything you wanted for dinner, don't worry. Tomorrow is a new day, and you can again hope that the world is on your team. If anything, there will be a good breakfast tomorrow!
Remember that hope is like a cinnamon roll for breakfast: healthy and tasty. But if you think about its consequences all the time, it turns into fatty deposits, called "night worries".
Let hope remain our good companion, but do not turn into a heavy burden of evening thoughts. It is better to have something light and pleasant for dinner than an abundance of thoughts and stress. Maria.