Saturday, December 20, 2008

Quantum Emotions

Last night I was thinking about all of the times where I have said "that was a shit week" or "I had a bad day". I, and others I know, say it all too often and I see the emotions this creates, eat away at our souls.

When I take the time to think about it, I realise how irrational it is to say that a WHOLE day or week or year is bad, when it is more likely than not that at least some things happy or funny or exciting did happen in that time.

As of today, I'm going to try something new with the way I think about events in my life. Rather than considering my life to unfold in days, weeks or years, I'm going to consider events to occur in discrete new quanta. Perhaps you've heard of these? I call them: MOMENTS!

I can't credit the WHOLE idea to my own genius. While deep in thought last night, I found that I kept reciting a movie quote in my mind. Something along the lines of: "It's about moments! That's all that matters!" - Cloverfield

So why am I doing this? Well, its because I consider whole days, weeks and months wasted when they turn out crappy. Given that my time is so precious, this concept of wasting time tends to get me down. I think that if I can break a day up into moments, throw away the ones that suck and hold onto those which matter the most, I can trick myself into thinking that every precious day is a beautiful one, which will be good for my soul :)

I urge you to help me in my little experiment. Take the challenge and make your life about moments. Please leave your feedback on whether or not this has helped the way you think about your life and how.

Goodbye, for now!

1 comment:

  1. I guess the next step is instead of considering a moment 'waisted' or 'bad' consider it 'improvable'. When reflecting, don't think to yourself 'that was shit'. Think 'that was rough, what can i do to avoid that again'.

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