Everyone wants to be happy, joyous, and free right now and this is why some love to complain. Living in the now is the only cash we have. Yesterday is a canceled check and tomorrow is a promissory note. Not long ago, I heard people complaining about the cold weather and how much they disliked it. Yesterday, I heard someone else complaining about the fact that they got too much sun and so were complaining about summer peeking at us from around the clouds.
Did you ever notice that some people are happiest when they feel that they have something to complain about so that is mainly what they do? Many of them seem happier if they can get others down in the mental sewer with them, so they just keep adding on until they either bring the other down or the other person leaves. When the other person leaves, it just gives the complainer another “justification” to think that no one likes them and makes them a little more miserable.
Right now, my blood pressure is normal and my pulse rate is 55 BPM, the sun is shining, the trees are green, Carol is in the next room, Oreo is sound asleep right by me, I am writing this so I am having pleasant thoughts about you. I have pleasant thoughts about our daughter, her husband, and her two adult children, our grandchildren, who just yesterday we were able to finally hug and kiss after the Covid “house arrest” we were all under was lifted because of vaccines, etc. Now is all that I have that is real. Everything else is either past memories, future wishes, or just dreaming.
Today and right now is when we build our tomorrows. If now is pleasant or at least manageable, tomorrow’s memories will be much better. If today is chaotic, tomorrow’s memories will be the same, at the very least, and traumatic or lethal at the worst. What kind of memories do you want to have from now on? Only you can choose what kind they will be. That’s right, you can choose what kind of memories you will have. That does not mean that you may not have problems today but the good memories come, not so much from the trouble itself, but from the way that you dealt with it. If you didn’t drink or drug today, the choice is yours so please choose wisely. If you do, I promise you that your memories will become so much better and, keeping it up, actually become pleasant.