Breathe
By Liliana Mejía
As every year, the forecasts for the new year begin to circulate in different media. This one, while I was reading them, anxiety took hold of me.
I understand the need and value of doing a speculative analysis of possible scenarios on different fronts, and from that analysis identify the risks and threats. Yes, the most pessimistic part and the most extreme scenario (from the negative point of view) to then predict the probability of it actually happening.
A few days ago, a report fell into my hands that caught my attention in a special way since it begins by making an analysis of the political situation in the world and describes it as the annus horribilisa Latin expression that does not even need a translation to understand without feeling a shudder. It was not the first one with this tone and I thought how dramatic our beginning of the year can become if we only focus on the threats to 'prepare for what may or may not happen', or even avoid it. And shouldn't we also prepare for the good?
Since the first days of the year, I have been thinking about this topic: that of making scenarios and forecasts for the best, so that we are also prepared for when reality positively exceeds our expectations.
I thought about it even from a personal perspective, what would I have done if I had had my life prognosis before I was born in the same format as the ones I read this year? I guess I would have been born scared to death.
I imagine that if I had been given a forecast for every year that I have lived in the way we are used to seeing the analysis - with all the risks and threats - I would have chosen not to be born.
But if in the prognosis of my future life I had been told that these same risks and threats were going to pass (to perhaps become others), that some would not even occur and that in addition, that in each of my years I would also feel and enjoy moments full of illusion, hope, laughter, hugs, encounters full of love and friendship, family that I love and who love me, the satisfaction of challenges overcome, and so many other things that give me happiness, surely the fear would have been removed and I would have rushed to be born.
The glass half full or half empty philosophy is sometimes extreme. Let's think about the water you have and that's it.
I have enough years to know that happy moments may be fleeting, but they never stop happening and we must also prepare ourselves so that when they do come we don't let them pass us by.
My reflection: let's embrace whatever comes because it comes as a package Happy 2024!
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