That T-Word!

THAT T-WORD!

Aah that T-word! That one thing that occupies everyone’s mind. Everybody thinks about it atleast a hundred times a day.

Parents, Employees, Bosses, Politicians are especially good at it. Nobody is spared, not even if they are rich and famous celebrities, powerful leaders, and successful businessmen. It operates democratically, irrespective of sex, gender, race or culture.

Every person who has ever lived has thought about it. It is the single most driving fuel for our dreams while simultaneously it is also ironically the fodder for our greatest stressors.

Nobody has any control over it whatsoever! No matter how rich, powerful or ambitious you are as far as its concerned you are a nobody. Most industries depend upon it for its very survival and wars are waged for it. We make sacrifices for it and we secretly fantasize about it. Too often we do not leave the home without planning for it in its every detail.

And yet, it is the only thing we want to control and conquer. We want to know it. We cannot help but be swayed by its promises of a better life. It is what makes us or breaks us. It is what we dread the most or cant wait to happen. It is a grand summation of our hopes, goals and intentions.

And yet! Nobody has ever seen it. Nobody has or will know it. Nobody has ever experienced it.

You guessed it. It is TOMORROW!

“Tomorrow tomorrow I love you tomorrow…you are only a day away’ as Annie the orphan sang and melted our hearts in the musical film Annie. It perfectly sums up how we feel about this mysterious but charismatic entity. It is what we feel we can hang onto. ‘Just hold on because tomorrow is a new day’ we tell ourselves when we are discontent or dissatisfied.

Tomorrow; our collective obsession, nemesis and foe. Tomorrow; our common destiny and our the inspiration for our greatest endeavours.

Why are we so crazy about tomorrow? Given that it does nothing concrete for us nor guarantees us with any accountability.

Eckhart Tolle calls this obsession one of the few ‘habitual mind strategies for denying the present moment.’ He further adds that they are ‘easy to overlook because they are so much a part of normal living: the background static of perpetual discontentment’.

The truth is that we try to console or motivate ourselves when we are less than thrilled about our present circumstances in life by distracting ourselves about thoughts of the future; tomorrow.

 And yet, when we really look at our present moment, I mean really look at it squarely in the eye we have a different picture. We first realise that we are alive and breathing; a big plus if you want are a human. Then slowly that realisation opens us up to other wider truths. For example, if we are living in the developed world, have a roof above our heads and are not living hand to mouth and have access to electricity and clean water we are better off than more than 65% of the planet. Add to that if we are healthy and have someone we love or who loves us we just rose to the top notch of a very privileged and blessed life in a second.

What would your life look if you really looked at it the way it was and not the way you want it to be? If you could spend more time focussing on all that you already have instead all that you don’t. What would be the greatest challenge? Note that down, as that is also your biggest limiting belief. It is the same belief, which keeps you from being free, from being grateful and from being yourself.

Lets not forget that today is and was our past’s tomorrow and if we are still not over the moon having transformed into the world’s most perfect being chances are we are still falling for an old trick of our mind. That tricks us into putting our faith into tomorrow more than today!

3 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY

1. Ask yourselves 5 times a day if you are focussed on something for the future. If yes, is it important and can it be scheduled for a set time?

2. Then, become aware of your toes and feet touching the floor and take two deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth.

3. Plan a ‘Future-focussed’ time slot every day. A time when you can think and do stuff around the future. The rest of the day, commit to being there fully and alert.

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