What if...

Listen to this before starting to read to get into the appropriate mood for what's coming up:



Very often it happens to us to ask ourselves this question: "what if...": what if I chose to live in another place?, what if I hadn't done this or that, what if I had gone to that party, to that movie or to the theater with my friends, what if I had chosen another job...

Why are we often unhappy or unsatisfied with the decisions that we took in the past, even in the recent past? It seems to me that it lies in the human's nature to have such feelings of regret. We somehow prefer to live in the past than to concentrate ourselves on the present. However, it is the present and not the past that we can change. Thus, we should concentrate on what we do TODAY by taking into account our feelings of regret from similar past events. This is called "learning by experience".

But what if you come up with a new situation?

In new circumstances, we should always remind ourselves that our life can be lived only in the present. To express myself in business terms, past is "sunk cost", whereas future depends on our "foresight capabilities". On what we have the most control is the PRESENT.

As such, whenever we're feeling low, we should be grateful that:
- we live
- we're healthy
- we're young and energetic
and we should act in such a way so that:
- we are happy
- we are satisfied
when we grow old about how we lived our lives.

So, carpe diem!
and
listen to a song from where I sometimes draw my energy ...."viva la vida":