Missing Out and the Now

Daily Meditation — 3/14/2022

When you were younger, you lusted after someone. Yearned to hold their hand, to be called “All theirs” and to make a life with them.

You maybe let slip your interest and were crushed under the weight of the most powerful two letters known to man:

“No.”

Or, perhaps, you did get some time with them but it ended.

One day, a decade or two later, you see them in public…

Their hair has grayed.
They put on considerable weight.
Or maybe lost their toned, athletic look.
They went bald.
Had a whole bunch of kids…

You now look back at your young self and maybe think it wasn’t so bad that you “missed out.”

Create gratitude about who you are in your current form.
Be grateful for what you have in the now.

Who you are and who you love are not promised to remain consistent in 10 years. Cultivate gratitude for the now.

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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”