Lugares inexistentes e os 85%

This morning I heard a startling statistic. Eighty to eighty five percent of us spends the majority of our time regretting the past and worrying about the future; translation: most of us spends the majority of our precious waking hours in a place that does not exist, rather than live in the here and now, rather than making the best of the finite time we have on this precious earth. So we come up short (yet again) and have (yet) more regrets in the future.

The good news is that I am not alone in this. The bad news is that 80%-85% is a lot of people. The result is an awful lot of short fuses, tremendous built-up anger, whopping impatience and an obscene amount of addicts walking around - be it an addiction to food, illegal drugs or antidepressants.

And, if they do not have any addictions, they spend life “vegetating” and going through the motions:  forcing themselves out of bed in the morning, looking forward to Fridays and dreading Sunday afternoons and Monday mornings.  All the while working their butts off as the protagonists in a puppetry show.           .

Sad.Sad.Sad.

 

Because living in the past does not change it and worrying about the future does not guarantee that it will be a smooth ride. But it does rob us of potential memorable moments today and of the possibility of some amazing memories tomorrow.