I’ve always found that music guides me through some of the best and worst times of my life. As so many people believe in signs, I believe that the universe always sends me messages through music when I need to hear them.

The past few weeks have been nothing short of rough for me, with all the stress and anxiety of getting older, preparing to shift careers, saying goodbye to the school I called home for years, and everything else in between. Anyway, I was at work yesterday, tidying up the self checkout station after the usual early afternoon rush, taking a moment to myself to reflect on the past few weeks. All of the emotions started to rush in. After taking a deep breath, I decided to take a moment to listen to the song playing on the store’s radio, which just so happened to be “Don’t Stop” by Fleetwood Mac.

I don’t think many people know how much I adore Fleetwood Mac…I only got into them a few years ago, and since then, Rumours has become one of my favorite albums of all time. I’ve always appreciated “Don’t Stop”…as much as I love Stevie Nicks, there’s just something special and charming about Christine McVie’s vocals paired with that of Lindsey Buckingham. But it wasn’t until yesterday that I stopped to think about the message of the song:

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here

It’ll be here better than before

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

And that was when I realized that it’s time for me to move on. I feel like these days, I’ve been living my life in the past. I’ve been thinking about the choices I’ve made, fallouts I’ve had with certain people, certain loved ones I’ve lost…I feel as if looking back has distracted me from where I’m going. Maybe instead, I ought to think more about my future and what’s ahead of me. Yesterday is over. It’s never coming back. And that’s when I started to think about the second verse of the song:

Why not think about times to come?

And not about the things that you’ve done?

If your life was bad to you

Just think what tomorrow will do

That’s when I realized that today is yesterday’s tomorrow and what I have right now is everything I was praying for this time last year; financial stability, a paralegal certificate I earned after months of busting my butt, the memories of one amazing trip to Europe and another coming later on this year. There have been bad days, and maybe sometimes there’ll be more bad days than good days, but sometimes you need the bad days just to realize how good the good days are, and how there’ll be good days again.

Thank you to Christine McVie for writing this masterpiece. I am never going to stop thinking about tomorrow.