What we need
If I
would want to know something I would first think of what I can change. Let us
listen to Michael Jackson for a moment and say that we would look at the
handsome man in the mirror first. This is the only person that we can directly
change. This would mean that we NEED to be able to trust the mirror man. Our
future self needs to listen to the self of the now, for otherwise we could
never plan our lives out. And we would never be able to make long term decisions.
But guess what, our future self does not exist, the only thing you can actually
directly change is the person in the mirror at this exact moment. Which is now
over.
Let us
say our future self does exactly what we say he needs to do. Now we still do
not know our paths. We need to be able to make a choice about where our paths
go, we need to take our pencil, grab a map and point out where we want to go.
We need to set an intention and actually take steps towards it. Now we have
made a path for ourselves. But we still do not know whether this is the right
path or not, this is my daily struggle.
The concept of time
Through
my short life I have changed my goals over a thousand times (at least ten times
more than my age). Logic would state that the paths I have chosen were wrong,
yet they have not led me back to the beginning. That never happens. This is
because of the concept of time, it forces us forwards through time (for as far
as I know). Time never lets me be at the exact same place. There is always some
change. If any path is right, the paths that led you to that path have been
right as well. In some way I have never strayed from it, even when I did
nothing, even when I slept. I do not know what the truth about life is (yet), I
am also one of life`s students. But I like the idea that our paths are right,
no matter what happens. It gives me energy to go chase my current goals,
whether they are right or not.