Stop for a moment and think.
Now...forget about what might have 'gone wrong' in your past...or what might 'go wrong' in your future.
What have you got that you WANT - NOW, this second?
- Do you have your health?
- Do you have a supportive wife/husband/significant other?
- Do you have healthy children?
- Do you earn enough money to be able to eat (and maybe have the odd vacation once in a while)?
- Do you have a roof over your head...and enough heating/air conditioning to make it bearable most of the time?
Well, DO YOU?
Sure...you might not have ALL of the above...but I bet that you have MOST of them.
So - what are you WORRYING about?
Are you worrying about...
- That mistake you made yesterday at work?
- Why you friends earn more than you?
- Why you 'hate' your job?
- How 'unlucky' you are?
- Why you can't have a better vacation?
- Why you can't afford a better house/car/whatever?
SO WHAT!
The ONLY important thing in this life is being HAPPY with your life NOW - this minute, this second...this snapshot in time.
STOP.
And think about if your life isn't ALL THAT BAD AFTER ALL.
Think about it...NOW.
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Well?
Did you?
Did you notice that your mind tried to put those...
REFLECTIVE thoughts about your past, and those
PROJECTIVE thoughts about your future
...into your head - just as you were trying to think about NOW?
It can't help it.
But...now that you are AWARE of what it is TRYING to do...don't you think that you should think more about whether life isn't ALL that bad, really.
Sure...we ALL want MORE in our lives...we wouldn't have evolved as a species if we didn't.
But...please...don't let your mind kid yourself that EVERYTHING is bad.
It's not....if you REALLY think about what you DO have.
Don't believe me?
Welll...I used to think that I was stressed in my job until I found out that trying to resuscitate your son in the back of a car whilst speeding to hospital was a little bit more important.
Take it from me...you ARE so much better off than you give yourself credit for.
Posted by vurnumg
