Why Not?

You're locked in a cage, packed tighter than sardines in a tin can and feeling lost and hopeless.You're here.Life is out there.To get to the other side of the fence, all you really have to do is punch your prison timecard and, unless you are serving a life or indeterminate sentence, you will eventually get out.I understand.It is easier to lie in your bunk and sleep away your time with your eyes wide-shut than to participate in programming that could have a positive impact.Doing nothing is easily justifi ed, but I would like to suggest a diff erent approach to doing time.Everyone is given 24 hours every day, even while incarcerated.And every day we get the chance to make a choice about what to do with those hours.Remember, even if you made a bad choice last week, month, year, or decade, tomorrow you get another set of 24 hours with which you can make a diff erent choice.Why not?