Ocassionally You Have to Wear Your Favorite Shirt

I was picking out a shirt to wear on Christmas Day when my eyes came to rest on my favorite shirt. It’s a nice cotton button down in a light maroon I really like.

I thought, “Well, that’s my favorite shirt, so I should save it.”

Save it?  For when?  My birthday?  Halloween?

That was my dilemma.  Should I wear my favorite shirt on Christmas and wear it out sooner (pun intended), or should I leave it hanging in the closet so it would last longer?

I remembered the day long ago when I wore my best shirt to school with my new ballpoint pen in its pocket.  Unfortunately, I left the pen in the pocket, and my mother put them both into the washing machine. Bye bye favorite shirt.  Bye bye favorite pen.

So, my message for you on this day after Christmas is – use it all.  Eat every food gift you received, wear every scratchy wool sweater, and, as they say in basketball, leave your entire 2023 game on the court.

You’re going to have another opportunity.  Your reward for piloting yourself through 2023 is that you get another entire year to refine your game and your life.  Let’s call our new chance 2024.

I’d like to be the first to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!

Alan