count that day lost

Tali Rubin:

I think every day is meaningful. If I’m alive , if I can smile – the day is great. I think every day is a new opportunity. Every day we can learn new things, we can travel, meet friends. When being Jewish you learn that every day is a blessing. You wake up and you say “Thank you G-d for waking me up”. Jewish life teaches you that your life is a continuous travel made out of seconds and days.

Jewish life also teaches you that every day is precious and you should not count any day lost. Each day is a day in which I can grow.

Each day you have a choice how to react and respond to events happening during the day. Judaism teaches us to do good to one another but first of all we should do good to ourselves.

I think it is great to help other people, give others a good feeling, give them food or money if they need it. I also think that in order to succeed with helping other people I should first of all help myself. I need to be a good whole person in order to help others. Doing good to others should not come on account of myself.

I do not agree with the author of the poem. I think my feeling about the  a day is what counts and the poet cannot tell me elsewhere. The author cannot decide for me if my day is lost or not. The poet wrote her poem with criticism. Maybe she lived in times that were hard, some people needed help but there were not many who could offer help when everyone was straggling to make a living. May be the author thought that even if times are hard, we should each demand more from ourselves and think about others.

I think nowadays you can read the poem differently as if suggesting doing all the good things she mentioned to ourselves.

I hope that when we learn to smile for ourselves, we will also learn to smile to others and our days will not count lost

Sara Lutvak:

A meaningful day for me is when I did something for someone else. When you give other people although it’s not easy all the time, it feels as if you moved the world forward.  Part of my work is helping children who have learning and emotional difficulties, and when I see their smile on their face, or an improvement at academic achievements because of what I did to help them, it makes me feel meaningful. It’s not always easy to convince them to read or write for the sake of improving their abilities in academic assignments. but in when you see how much they progressed in learning, you know you did something to make a better world.

Another thing that makes me feel that I had a meaningful day is when my beautiful son gives me kisses and hugs, and even says: “Ima, I love you”. This is a moment that you know, whatever you do in your life, no matter how difficult it was at work, you brought life into the world, you are a mother! I have the responsibility to make him a good man in the future, and this is the real mission in life for me. I hope I will succeed this mission..

I agree with the main idea of the poem. I think every person should have at least one meaningful moment at a day. It motivates people to wake up in the morning. I know some people who have depression illness, and you can see that when they have something to live for, they are happier. Especially when they do something to someone else. There is an attitude that says that every day you should write a list of good things you had through the day. I think this attitude associated to the poem. I wish everyone will feel they had meaningful moments in their life.