Someone is Watching You
He's happy... or not
It’s Sunday morning.
You’re about to start your day.
Doing what you’d planned.
You think you’re alone, but you aren’t.
Someone is here, lurking in the shadows.
This someone is spying on you in minute detail, watching your every move and action. Depending on how you spend this day and the next, he’ll be more or less satisfied with you.
When you don’t do what you said you’d do for him, he clenches his fists, a feeling of rage runs through him.
He wants to shake you off, to tell you: “You promised me, do it.”
Anger runs through him, he’s disappointed.
This person is your future self.
Think about it: today, you’re thinking about your past self.
“I should have done that. I shouldn’t have made those mistakes. I should have tried harder. I could have and I didn’t.”
That you of the past is your you of today.
You’re capable of doing more, and you know it, because it’s exactly the same thoughts you have about your past self.
You know that your past self had more strength than it thought, but that it didn’t use it.
You regret that he didn’t have more willpower, more discipline.
You regret that he didn’t make the extra effort that was needed to move your life forward.
But why blame him?
Since today, you have the ability to make up for his mistakes?
You have a great power today: to build perfection for the you of the future.
It takes work, it takes effort, but is there any greater quest than to make yourself happy?
This day dawns and a new week begins tomorrow.
Everything we do in life, we don’t do for ourselves.
We do for our future selves.
We don’t live for today’s us, but for the us of the future.
Your future you is your boss.
In 5 years, 10 years?
What will it think of you?
Will he be proud?
Angry?
Satisfied?
Do you want to risk blaming yourself?
Do you want to live with the regret of saying you could have done better?
You have the choice to make the necessary efforts to satisfy him… or not.
After all, it’s your life and your choice.
We are only as good as our actions, and there’s only one winner or loser: us.