This was something that Kabir mentioned the other day. And it's a valuable perspective as a tool to look at life.
He talked about humans not realized the compounding effects of their actions.
If they're choosing something today, if they're indulging or experiencing an ill effect today - then that, over a lifespan only gets amplified.
Somehow humans, either can't fathom, or just assume things will be different some day.
Usually, without active action put in against these, that won't be the case.
And this active action will require one to muster up a ton of courage.
If you're unhappy in what you have today, you'll be unhappy everyday.
If you're loving your work today, you'll love it everyday, etc.
If you're allowing toxic relationships today, you'll only do that more tomorrow.
What you don't reject is also what you accept.
The perspective that is sort of the opposite to the perspective that everything in life is a cycle and that change is the only constant.
That is not a flaw, that is because perspectives are tools in our toolkit to help navigate through things.
The 'life is a cycle' perspective helps us deal with the changing times and uncertainty of life.
However the 'how you live your day is how you live your life' perspective helps us identify and exterminate things harmful to us, that we often, passively subscribe to, because we think someday things will be different.
Afterall, it takes much lower courage to indulge than actually do the right thing.
It takes courage, you see!
So whatever change in life you desire, bring it forth today. The nuance here is that you don't have much you can control. So the changes you can really bring are not going to be externally oriented.
Like let's say you are unhappy with your health and want to have six packs, or unhappy with your social life and want to have better relationships & friendships. Those are outcomes, outcomes come over time, we get used to 'em, and they go in no time.
What I'm asking you to work on through this note is how you look at yourself.
If naman doesn't value his fitness today, the ripple effects will be seen much louder tommorrow.
So naman must become a person who values fitness today, naman must not wait for tomorrow to choose that.
Now I realise that this also goes against the values of The future doesn't exist and 'love over fear' - since this is essentially using a concept of something happening in the future to scare you today.
I'm going to think about an answer to that, and when I do, I shall write it here.
to be completed...