Keeping Up

You could argue that life is about getting ahead. Or about accomplishing a lot. About doing good every day. Or about leaving your mark on the world.
 
The truth is, some days, life is just about keeping up. While in some areas, you can just go with the flow, sometimes, keeping up is, well, pretty important. For example--
 
1. Knowing what day it is. Even if you have a job that is virtually the same each day, there are any number of things that are NOT the same, so keeping up with the day of the week is pretty important. Is this the day when one kid has gym and needs sneakers and another has art and shouldn't wear that brand new shirt? Or is it the other way around? And is this the day with the early pickups or the late pickups? And more important, is it you doing the pickup, or someone else, a someone else who is only available on particular days? Ahh, keeping up.
 
2. Knowing what week it is. Is this the Friday you are supposed to be at a school parents' gathering? And, since, in your infinite wisdom, you scheduled certain lessons to be every OTHER week, is this an on week or an off week? Because even if you're sure it's Tuesday, not all Tuesdays are created equal. Keeping up...
 
3. And what time is it again? Can you make a 20 minute trip take only 12, when you are trying hard to keep up with work and keep up with family too? And is this a day when you can get away with an extra half-hour of sleep, or one when that half-hour will leave you irreparably behind for hours? Try to keep up.
 
So, while you can start out each day planning to do great things, for yourself, for your family, or for the world, at the end of the day, if you've kept up--been on the right day of the right week of the right month, and relatively on time--sometimes keeping up is more than enough.