🙃 Have you heard the tale of the silver thread?
A small boy, he’s about to go to school & he doesn’t want to go to school. On his way to school, he meets an old woman holding a ball of silver yarn.
She says: “If you pull from this yarn time will pass”.
He says: “I’m going to pull it because I don’t want to be in school, I just want to go to summer.”
The old lady says: “But hey, there’s a catch. When you pull the thread, you can never go back. You can only go forward. But you can pull it as many times or as little as you want.”
The little boy pulls the thread, Boom, summertime.
He says: “This is amazing! I was able to skip that year of school.”
He then thought, well what If I was able to skip all the years of school…
So he pulls it again. He’s now at university.
“Ah, university is tough. What if I can just skip straight to work.”
When he’s in the workforce he realizes he’s unhappy because he’s lonely.
He pulls the thread again so he’s in a relationship.
Boom, he’s married.
“Oh wait, I missed my wedding day? I’m not doing it anymore.”
Little time goes by, his wife gets pregnant, and has a baby. The baby begins to scream and cry.
“Oh man, I have to deal with this baby. Let me pull the thread to where he’s all grown up.”
Pulls the thread, the child’s grown up.
Eventually, in old age, he realizes that he wanted to fast-forward all of his life and that he wasn’t able to experience any of it.
The premise is very simple. To live in the future is your inability to live in the present. People who live in the future are often unhappy.
Because they want to be something that they are not.
Don’t waste your life chasing the future.💚