Tomorrow’s happiness is today’s anguish

I’ve thinking about the future allot in my life and I realised sometime back now that I kept thinking that things would be better in the future that for many reasons tomorrow was going to the way today should be.

When I get that new computer, when I get that car I always wanted, when I have a house, a new flat etc. but really thinking that the future will bring us happiness just gives us an excuse to be unhappy or unsatisfied today.

This allows us to avoid taking the steps that would make our everyday life better now.

I like to call it the “live today, be happy tomorrow paradox”.

As we move along in life, as everyday appears to be a collection of small or big problems we waste our lives saving up to be happy as if the future was something guarantied to be better but as I see it, it only leads to bad days, terrible weeks and a shit life.

We focus on today’s problems when we should focus on the bright sides because at the end of the day that’s all we are going to get, however much money we make, and however successful we become.

Dr Frankl in his brilliant book “Mans search for meaning” demonstrates that we are all looking for meaning and that all our materialistic desires are deprived of it.

The question that naturally springs is hence, what is our meaning in life; sadly this is something we must each discover alone.