If we go to a bookstore, we will easily find self-help books and, if we look at the shelves, we will immediately notice that they are fashionable. Most are very critical of the modern consumer values under which many of us have been educated. : study a lot to find a good job, earn a lot of money, be able to live well, buy the house we want, even pay for your funeral, which is getting more expensive.
In the face of this, most self-help books remind us of a reality: time does not stop, and if we do not move, life will pass without us nod; on the contrary, the revolution that invites us enhances the moment when we live as something so precious In a way, it is like returning to the medieval Carpe Diem, but with reservations.
- At that moment.
- The present was exalted because there was little hope for the future.
- It had to be enjoyed because.
- In the second that follows.
- The enemy could appear in the forest and kill you before you realize it.
- Or you could irritate the king and end up in the same fate.
- Moreover.
- The Western religion regarded this life as a valley of tears before salvation.
It is now different, although we live many years and mortality is much lower; what scares us is the speed of time, too fast for all the dreams we’d like to achieve. And it’s very fast because, for most of these dreams, we just need this: time. Or your monetary translation, money.
We have to work hard and live for a gift that pays precisely what we are afraid to spend time, know how to value the value of a dream, the good that we will gain from achieving it and, therefore, what space in our lives we are in. You must invest in it, you need an intelligence that has little to do with solving mathematical problems, knowing the figure that completes a series, the object that nothing adds to a scene or the meaning of a word. It has to do with the private, and intimate.
Doing something or arriving at a certain place can be amazing, but it can also force us to accept a job that makes us bitter every day, these types of dreams are usually very expensive, and if we give up halfway, no one will give us back. Therefore, using the intelligence that I have called the title of life, it is generally much more productive, in terms of happiness, to choose that dream or wish that requires a pleasant path or, at least, a shorter path. .
Finally, it is important to note that despite the taste that may leave the exposed so far, happiness is not a rational thing; it is not understood or lived outside of feelings or magic, however, you can use reason to decide: what goals deserve our time, in what ways we will not find happiness and where it will wait for us most intensely. There are few sensations comparable to the fullness of knowing that you age after using time: present or future.
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