Yesterday

The linear opposite of yesterday is tomorrow, but that seems too easy.

Yesterday is experience and regrets.

Tomorrow is opportunity and anticipation.

Yesterday is a sepia-toned photograph, a clipper ship, a lace-trimmed parasol, a loaf of freshly baked bread....

But yesterday is also the arrogance of the Raj, colonial slaves mining diamonds and gold in Africa, the worst period of lynchings in the Southern United States, Removals of native peoples from their lands throughout the world....

In a rare display of humility Paul McCartney once admitted that his original idea for perhaps his most famous (and best) song was 'Scrambled Eggs'. The chorus went something like, 'Scrambled eggs, how I loved your legs' and so on. This highlights the importance of knowing when to stop and when to go on when creating any work of art. It is a good job for Paul and for everyone else that he decided to have another look at his efforts. At the same time many works of art can be spoiled, their freshness destroyed by an over-zelous examination by their creator.

Don't regret what you did yesterday. And don't run from the things that make you weak today. In your mind, you are already in hell, since, as they say, hell is other people.

Yesterdays are important. So are tomorrows. The present really doesn't make much difference – which is why it exists for only a moment at a time.

If we can remember the good things that were, and give the good things to be enough room to happen, we'll be just fine.

Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it seems as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go
I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wron
Now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go
I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wrong
Now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday

Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm

-- The Beatles, Yesterday (as if you didn't know already)

yesterday is history, the past. stuff that happened to you, physically, mentally, metaphysically, metaphorically. either negative or positive you have or should have learned something from it. or not, if it was a boring, drooly day. like mine. my yesterday compared to today sucked big time.