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In Patricia Polacco's "The Art of Miss Chew," Miss Chew quotes the following as a Chinese proverb:
"Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift -- that's why it's called the present."
First person to figure out why this is extremely unlikely to be an actual Chinese proverb gets the prize.
My head-canon is that Miss Chew thinks that bit of sentimental glurge may actually cheer up her student if she dresses it up as a Chinese proverb, though she knows very well that it's not.
It may be a sad state of affairs when random picture books require fix-it head-canon.
"Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift -- that's why it's called the present."
First person to figure out why this is extremely unlikely to be an actual Chinese proverb gets the prize.
My head-canon is that Miss Chew thinks that bit of sentimental glurge may actually cheer up her student if she dresses it up as a Chinese proverb, though she knows very well that it's not.
It may be a sad state of affairs when random picture books require fix-it head-canon.
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Of course, the phrase relies upon the wordplay **in English** of the multiple meanings of the word "present," meaning it's unlikely to genuinely be a Chinese saying.