Should we live life for today or save up for tomorrow?
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-Kyle-School-Kid-
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This debate rages on forever. There's a simple answer, the trouble is that the answer blows the top off of the human mind, leaving it exposed to all sorts of radical ideas! :-) Here's the answer, unadorned and without the 6 pages of explanation required to make it seem sensible: Living for the moment IS saving up for tomorrow... because the only tomorrow that actually exists is completely present here-and-now. The future is a subset of NOW, so if you live for now the future is automatically included.
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I try to do both, but if I have to err on one side, it's today's. For all I know, I could get hit by a killed by a hit-and-run bicyclist tomorrow, so WTF.
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Live for today, There may not be a tomorrow
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There is a saying that says: live like there is no tomorrow, but prepare for forever...(or something like that). As a christian, I can never be sure I have a tomorrow, so I live a life that, if it should end today, will have no regrets. On the other hand, I prepare for eternity by keeping short bills with the Lord, and by telling others about His amazing love.
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carpe diem.
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Live in the Now. That's all you have. Yesterday is a memory, and tomorrow is a "daydream"
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Go ahead and live today, but bear in mind that to be old with little money could be a rather pathetic situation. I have seen it, and it has set my mind a' thinking.
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there might not be a tomorrow, so live life today
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Tomorrow never comes.
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I think we should live "in" today and save up for tomorrow. Only a fool would assume they don't need to plan on being here tomorrow. Only a fool would neglect living today and appreciating that it may be all they have. Enjoy life today because we are not promised tomorrow but save up just in case tomorrow comes.
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Live for today b/c you never know what might happen.
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Live for today - but put some money back for a pension.. (especially if you are English because the gov't are just spending our retirement fund!)
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The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. You can have a blast today, while still being financially responsible enough to KEEP ON living for today...tomorrow.
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If you live for today? What would you do when you live longer then you expected you would? I'd rather save for tomorrow so that even if it can't benefit me, it would be there for my family.
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did save up a lot for tommorrow but finally realised that its not worth it....when tomorrow becomes today there is nothing so great about it....just another day
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A resounding LIVE FOR TODAY -
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Live life to the fullest now cause you dont know whats to come in the future.
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As one who lived for today, I recommend saving at least something for tomorrow, even 60 or 70 years is a long time....lots of expenses.
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Live in the Now, you could be dead tomorrow.
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yes i really think so
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both, enjoy today as much as you can while still being able to plan for tomorrow. It's a balance thing
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You should live for today but always have enough reserves to be prepared for tomorrow =)
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spend enough to get by. save the rest for later. =P
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save up for tomorrow, so than you have something to look forward to! lol!
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Why do you have to do one or the other when you can do both? Take 10 percent of your pay every week and save it. When you accumulate $500 to $1000 dollars open a stock trading account and buy some stocks at today's bargain basement prices. Everything is on sale today! You'll get more shares for your buck and make more loot later when the rest of America jumps back in. That's what I'm doing, check it out here: http://barry34785.blogspot.com
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If you don't plan for tomorrow when it does get here you'll have nothing to show for it and then you'll be more likely to vote for the plunderers [aka DemocRATs] because they'll tell you they're going to make the evil, putrid, filthy, stinking rich pay more taxes and then give it to you. Why wait on those fools to do it for you when you can invest a little money today and become one of those filthy, stinking, vile rich people tomorrow?
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