The opportunity to live
You are the envy of great kings, emperors, artists and you don't know it. You have something that they lost, even though they were very powerful, respected, rich and famous. You are alive!
Tell me if it hasn't happened to you, and it bothers you a lot, that no one gives you an opportunity to demonstrate the skills and knowledge you possess? I bet it has happened to you!
Now, let's imagine that this opportunity has arrived and that you completely miss it.
Let's imagine a timeline that starts two hundred thousand years ago, just when homo sapiens began to develop. We are also going to include the approximately 2022 years that we have lived after Christ or since the year zero.
You realize that 80 years seems like a lot, but compared to everything human has experienced, they are hardly noticeable.
Can you imagine existing somewhere and someone decides that you are going to live 80 years and then you return to that place? I think we would make much more use of that time.
What happens if we analyze how much time in life we spend worrying about something that may happen?
Let's imagine for a moment that you must go under a simple surgical operation in the next two weeks. However, we do not stop thinking about it for a single minute.
Another detail to take into account is that we will not be able to cancel the surgery. I mean, it will happen.
It's time to go into the operating room, have the surgery happen, and fully recover in the next three days. It was a very simple procedure, so you were worried without a cause.
The analysis shows that you spent fourteen days preoccupied just because. That you wasted two weeks of your short life in submitting yourself to a very strong stress and you had no control of the situation, because you couldn't prevent it from happening.
Moral of this little story: when you feel you can't change the facts, avoid wasting your days.
It is scary to create images of scenarios that really destabilize our mental health