“Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.” 

 Dan Sullivan

 

It’s been a while since I wrote anything. Vacation makes a person lazy as hell. For 2 weeks I was getting up at 8:00 or 9:00 (can you imagine a breakfast in the hotel that is only served until 9:30?? Disgrace!), reading belles-letters just for the enjoyment of reading, lying on a beach, swimming with sea turtles and picking up mushrooms in the forest. On top of that trying to not think about work at all. In my humble opinion this is what makes a great holiday.

During vacation I was thinking a lot about where I’m going with my life. How whatever I’m doing now will impact my future self. What shall I do in the nearest months or years to fulfill my destiny (or just make the life I live worth living)? Unfortunately there was no groundbreaking discovery or spontaneous enlightenment in this department. Not even the small catharsis. But I did have some thoughts about life. And I'd like to share them here.

Although it’s really hard to predict the actual outcomes of the current actions, basing on the life experience and common knowledge one thing seems to be very likely. Today’s problems will probably mean nothing in the future. Today’s doubts will only make us laugh in 10 years. Whatever we fear or despise today, we might actually enjoy 2 years from now. What is enjoyable at this moment, might appear overwhelming or boring in 5 years’ time.

My friend once told me a story about how much she wanted to go kayaking as a teenager. It was her big dream, she was thinking and reading about it a lot and never really tried it back then, because of the usual teenage reasons. The years have passed and one day she had a chance to try. She got excited (it was THE DREAM!), went on the kayaking trip and… didn’t enjoy it. Turned out it was not her dream anymore and she couldn’t find the excitement from the past in herself.

Life is a constant change. We never know what the future will bring, but there is a great chance, that we will feel completely different about the same thing today, when we just imagine it and in the future, when it will actually happen. Personal conclusion? Carpe diem. We live in the now and now is what really matters. Our future self will most probably not care much about what we’re doing at this particular moment – they will have their own “now” to take care of.