A really comforting thought is that we do have a choice in every moment of our lives. We often believe we don’t, but we do. In each and every instant of our day we are faced with different possibilities: Wear the white shirt or the red one, eat meat or fish, walk or drive, watch a movie or read a book, listen to a friend or ignore him/her, answer with a kind word or with a rude one, believe we can do it or we can’t, believe we are winners or losers. Most of what we are surrounded by (environment, situations, people) try to make us believe that the only choice we have is to go with the flow, to do what others do, to accept what others tell us to do. Isn’t this the whole idea about advertising?
“They” endeavor to convince you that the only way to live better is to buy their product, to believe what they are saying, to trust their promises, to support their plans. You will go on living blindfolded as long as you are not aware of the blindfold that is shrouding your perception of your true freedom to choose who you really want to be, what you really want to do with yourself and with your life.
Often the outside world tends to convince you that what you have is not enough, that what you “are” is not enough. You feel you are in lack, your life is not complete, you are missing on lots of things. You are totally conditioned by the programming that has been created for you. You are constantly pushed to look at those who “own” more than you, who are more handsome or more beautiful or thinner than you.
So you start struggling and continue struggling all your life (unless you become “aware“) in order to have what you believe you are lacking. But all this is a lie. You already “own” all you need to live “your” life, the precious life that no one can live for you. Don’t look at the false assets that are constantly put under your nose, but rather focus on the “real” assets that are already present in your existence, right now.
Start appreciating the basics you have been granted, before looking for the next thing you believe you need in order to feel satisfied. Actually, are you ever really satisfied? Think for a moment about something you wanted badly.
Then you got it. What then? For how long were you happy with it? How long did your gratitude last? Did you truly feel any gratitude at all? It seems that nowadays having our real needs met is not sufficient to make us relax and enjoy life. We are constantly led to feel dissatisfied, to nurse the desire for more, always more, to wish to reach what seems to be always beyond our grasp. Why? Because a new “basic need” is being instilled in
us daily, i.e. the need to overlook what is in front of us in order to cherish a mirage that will never become a reality. How sad. What a waste of time.
What a waste of life.
Saudi English instructor and published author (in Italy), is a long-time scholar of positive thinking.
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