Can’t Get Over That Terrible Yesterday?

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“You can finally hear when you stop listening to the imaginary conversations in your head.” Christopher Knight Lopez, International Best-Selling Author.

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THE GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY

Today can be objectively beautiful. The sunrise coming over your horizon is a sight to behold if you can see. If your health is with you, it’s wonderful not to be sick. Most who have fevers would trade everything to feel better. Opening your fridge to the food you want is a blessing when there are those outside lining up for the local foodbank. The mind can rob you of these pleasantries.

Echoes of your spouses’ insults can ring through your ears despite no spouse being present to talk. The betrayal of five years ago can be brought back to life despite its death a long time ago. Even the person who cut you off on the highway five minutes ago can still be in front of you as you idle at a red light on a side street.

Yesterday’s hurt can distract you from today’s blessings.

Think. How many past ghosts are you reviving in your mind when there is an actual life to live today?

THE PRESENT OFTEN IS NOT BAD

Most torment themselves with imagination. Pain is unavoidable but suffering is optional. Yesterday’s pain had a moment. It’s often one person’s choice to make that moment into a lifetime. One argument yesterday doesn’t need to revise into a thousand different fictional alternatives.

What you call analysis is actually paralysis. Constantly replaying a past event to “learn” is not “learning”. Replays are self-torture because you trade away your present for fictional thoughts about yesterday.

Extracting a meaning from the past is something you do to proactively use today. Once you learn the lesson the application is what you continuously remember — not the event.

Watching a bad show over and over in your mind is voluntary suffering you endure for no real reason. Reflecting thoughtfully is measured and takes long enough to extract a meaning. This is something you do once not repeatedly. Know the difference.

THE POWER OF BEING PRESENT

Touch yourself on the hand. Look at the sky. Hear the music on your radio. Feel the cool breeze in the air. Observe how someone smiles at you when you walk into Starbucks. This is your present. Everything else is your imagination.

CLOSING VERSE

The Final Testament. The Holy Quran. Sura [57:20] “Know that this worldly life is no more than play and games, and boasting among you, and hoarding of money and children. It is like abundant rain that produces plants and pleases the disbelievers. But then the plants turn into useless hay and are blown away by the wind. In the Hereafter there is either severe retribution, or forgiveness from GOD and approval. This worldly life is no more than a temporary illusion.”

IN CLOSING

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This article is meant to provoke thought — not argument. It’s a way of opening up the mind to alternative ideologies based on what one reads — not what one hears. The belief is personal and of course I respect everyone’s personal beliefs. I condemn no one for choosing whatever path — as clearly I mean to choose my own.

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About Christopher: Christopher Knight Lopez is a Professional Hustler turned International Best Seller, Award Winner of the December 2024 prestigious International Impact Book Awards — a premier award program dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the exceptional work of authors around the globe and Published Author of “I Made It Then I Didn’t”. He is also a Co-Author with Kevin “The Shark” Harrington “Many Paths To Profit”. See more at www.christopherklopez.com.