Time: Friend or Foe?
By María Murillo
Do you know someone for whom time has stopped in the past, someone who lives only in their memories, longing for those good times that will never return? These are usually people with exceptional memories; they recall a vast amount of information, evaluate everything, and are constantly gripped by nostalgia for the past.
Or perhaps you know someone who doesn’t plan, who only lives in the moment? They don’t know what they’ll do tomorrow, let alone what they’ll do in six months, and even less so in a year. It’s common for these people to live intensely in the present, without considering the experience of the past, as they are focused on the present, they are fun-loving, and they don’t weigh the risks of the future.
Perhaps you know other people for whom life passes them by while they make plans. They live dreaming of the future; they are visionaries, and the only thing that matters is “securing” what the coming years hold for them. Therefore, they don’t enjoy the present because they are too busy designing their future.
Where do you think wisdom resides? How do you think time becomes your friend or your greatest enemy?
When you manage to recognize how you’ve encoded time in your mind and can access the past and the future to fully experience your present, you develop a thinking skill of geniuses.
Recognizing your ability to visualize and create something in your mind that doesn’t yet exist—that is, to go to the future using your imagination and vision, to review the past and extract the lessons and wisdom that experience has given you, and then take action in the present with all those resources—will give rise to a masterpiece that only you can create: the art of designing the life of your dreams and making them a reality.
Time: friend or foe?
