I have been reflecting, that happiness does not accompany people as they would like. Complaints, discouragement, depression; the list of feelings that wither the life of humanity is getting longer and longer.
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What happens to us? Is not this a world full of opportunities to be happy? The human being has shaped his environment as much as he wanted. Nothing of comparison with past centuries, when man and nature were fused.
But the human being lived his present, his attention was focused on what he had, and his dreams were with him, between his steps of reality.
Here I pause. Focus attention. Steemian, that's the main problem. Whether we are happy or not, if we do not have feelings of happiness, the reason is that attention is focused on what will attract what we do not want.
It has been said ad nauseam that we are what we think. We feel according to where we pay attention.
Why this feeling of impotence? Of course, steemian, if you concentrate on the factors that you have no control over, the despondency of not being able to find a solution will cover you and tarnish your day.
Remembering the hunter who was our ancestor, he focused on what he had control over; in his ability to hunt, in his movements, in what he could learn from his teachers and everything that was in his hands. He did not stop if the weather was not favorable. If he did not find prey, he looked for them in other places.
Understand, the hunter was not in control of whether or not there was prey in an expected place. So, without further ado, he did what was under his control, he looked for footprints, he applied what he had learned, he was aware of any trace, or he let himself be carried away by his experiences and instinct to find what he was looking for.
It was a matter of life or death.
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We return, as in previous post, to give value to death. More than fearing him, it is he who adjusts the limits of our reason.
Now, in this modern world, you will not die if you fail in your work, you will not die if your dreams are not fulfilled. You will not die if your goals are not touched by you.
Then, steemian, you can choose. The primitive hunter had no choice. I remember that I once read that an oak grew as much as it could because it had no choice.
The human being of today, can choose between achieving their dreams, or stay recostado in the sofa that has in the comfort zone.
There is no other living being to have the gift of choice. Achieving happiness is summarized by focusing our attention on the things we can control.
What others think? We can not control them. The comments I will receive for this post? Is not it within my power to control them? Can you prevent a storm from forcing you to change plans? You can not control it
But you can act in favor; experience, learning and imagination conspire to make use of what you do have control, and solve.
Yes steemian, solve like McGyver did.
Greetings, friend. See you in the next post.
Bye
Thomas Flores.