Meaning of Today for you, tomorrow for me (What is it, Concept and Definition)

What is Today for you, tomorrow for me:

The saying "Today for you, tomorrow for me" is a popular saying based on the values ​​of friendship, solidarity and, especially, reciprocity.

The saying implies the availability of a person to help someone with whom they have a friendly relationship, and who in the future hopes to count on their support.

Who invokes the use of the saying normally is the person who comes asks to help the friend.Before the question cuts "How do I pay you?", the good friend invokes the expression "Today for you, tomorrow for me", as who says " do not worry, you can correspond to me if necessary.”

In this sense, the saying represents life as a reciprocity of gifts.The payment of favors is not allowed, but mutual solidarity and the exchange of spiritual values, invoking the ability to correspond to the good received through another good.

An equivalent saying can be the following: “ Make my beard and make yourself the tuft.”Another one that has a similar sense is:“ Ask yourself why you do to me, that you are not God that you are worth to me.”

The expression“ Today for you, tomorrow by mi ”was popularized and immortalized in a song by the artists Juan Manuel Serrat and Joaquin Sabina, included in the album Serrat and Sabina: The Titanic Orchestra .

The saying also is referred to in the Second Part of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha , II 65.

See also Better late than never.