Quiroga - 24

 HEALTH IS DECEIVING

That every time in the past has been better is a figure of speech, a fantastic allegory, because nothing proves that the past was better than the very will to affirm, with longing, that the past was always better.

Attachment is a passion, which seizes on any arguments to assert itself. It's easy to get attached to the past, including traumatic and painful events, because we consider them familiar, and they make us look at the present and the future with strangeness.

However, however seductive the temptation of nostalgia may be, it is inevitable that we launch ourselves into the future, accepting the adventure of living longer and better.

So, no matter how bad the results of daring to bet on the projections we make of the future are, this will always be preferable to continuing to cling to how things were, or to how they should be now, because this attachment, even pleasant and familiar , is useless and counterproductive, the world will never go back to the way it was before, and there is not even proof that the previous world was better than the current one, therefore, it is worth accepting that we can only continue launching ourselves into the future .

Nostalgia seems delicious, but it is misleading, it seduces us with the idea that our place of comfort and security is found elsewhere, but in a fantasy condition that, if it were current and present, it is suspect that it would not offer us that comfort and security that our imagination now produces.

Therefore, let's keep projecting ourselves into the future, let's keep daring to throw ourselves into experiments, no matter how bad the results are, better these than continuing in the inert attachment to something that will never again be, and that everything indicates never to have been either.