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WotD: Red-letter day
Think about the best day of your life, the day you will always remember, and that is a red-letter day.
If we lived in a perfect utopia, every day would be the best day of our lives.
Things would get better and better without end.
Unfortunately, from time to time, we all have our bad days.
How does that John Denver song go?
Some days are diamonds; some days are stones
Sometimes the hard times won’t leave me alone
Sometimes a cold wind blows a chill in my bones
Some days are diamonds; some days are stones
But the bad ones are what makes the good ones all the better.
If every day were a red-letter day, they’d all be the same, wouldn’t they?
There’d be nothing unique or outstanding about memorable days.
Generally, the red-letter days are the ones which mark some positive transformation in our lives.
Graduations, first new cars, weddings—heck, maybe even divorces—all are milestones in our lives that we can hopefully look back on with happiness and a smile on our faces.
The lucky ones among us have had many red-letter days, while the not-so-lucky have had only a few.
Nevertheless, we keep moving forward.
Why? Humans are naturally positive.
No matter how bad things are, hope springs eternal.
Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning.
Hope is what enables us to wish each other good morning when, actually, we’re not having a good morning, day, week or even month.
We keep going; we keep battling until we have a special day.
When one of those days does come around, we file it away as a special memory.
Then, when we’re feeling blue again, we can close our eyes and think back to that beautiful red-letter day.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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