DURING MY TIME AS A DEMENTIA CARER, I CONTINUTALLY TRIED TO FIND A 'FORMULAE' THAT WOULD FIT ALL THINGS.
THE FORMULAE CAME AT ONE OF THE WORST TIMES IN MY NIGHTMARISH TRIP AS A DEMENTIA CARER; AND, THOUGH I HAVE TRIED MANY TIMES SINCE TO IMPROVE ON IT; AND THOUGH ONE PART MAY BE PAINFUL; I CAN ONLY PLAY ABOUT WITH COMMAS, SEMI-COLONS. etc.
THE SAYING/MAXIM WAS PUBLISHED IN A CARE MAGAZINE-SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN SEEN AS USEFUL, ANYWAY, FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH, HERE IT IS:
LIVE FOR TODAY,
PLAN FOR TOMORROW
AND...
FORGET YESTERDAYS.

THE PLAYING ABOUT WITH PUNCTUATION RELATED TO THE WORD 'AND'- BEING THAT MANY PATHOS AND MEMORIES MAY COME WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE.

No, Dezar, the devastatingly cruel irony of that maxim is not lost on me - and I suspect not on all those many carers who have travelled with someone they love into their dementia until,like me,they read, on that stark piece of officialdom - Cause of death - End stage dementia.
My sincere good wishes for YOUR future.
Jill.
ps. I don't think there is a formula. I can only add a few lines taken from a poem I struggled to write;
Her smiling reassurances
Decorating his departuere
Yesterday was grief.
The poem was entitled 'Tomorrow'.