We all knew that the future is uncertain and the past is what we can't change. Yet we all feel sad about the past and anxious or overthink about the future.
In this chapter, the author explained how Sir William Osier
in 1871 from a student anxious about his future all the time learned a lesson
and become the highest honoured medical man at that time.
He came up with this phrase when he was traveling on The Great Ocean Liner across the Atlantic, with a press of a button by the captain ship shut off the parts into water-tight compartments to cover its long voyage.
He explains how life is just a long voyage, the same way we
have to shut our compartments into a day only and just think about today's objective
only.
It doesn't mean we shouldn’t think about the future, we all need savings, life insurance, good health, food supply, etc. But worrying about the outcomes of several uncertain events gives us mental instability for no reason.
Even doctors have proved that worrying has serious effects
on physical and mental health both.
Worrying about tomorrow all the time gives us anxiety, which
further does not let us live in the present which leads to much greater effects
on our future. This leads to the beginning of a downward spiral in life.
Take a note of it and stick it where you can see it every day
“The future is today, there is no tomorrow”.
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