Once upon a time two human twin brothers had received each for their 20th birthday a magic watch.
The watch had the power to skip the unpleasant times in their life to go directly at the next ones.
Paradoxically, even if the twins got the same childhood, they were very different in their opinions.
If you have brothers or sisters you maybe saw what I mean.
They were very diverging about their life’s next orientation, about what they expected, what will bring them the most comfort, safety and happiness.
The first one made a strategy to get the best life as possible by the easiest way as possible.
So, he chose to get everything he was looking for straight away, to have it his whole life instead of only at the end.
To get it, he was using something called “money” which can be obtained in human organizations called “bank”.
The principle is to exchange a lot of immediate money against more money later than was borrowed.
To get a bit of money at any time humans invented something called “work” or “labor”.
It’s about to exchange something you’re good at doing against money to buy all the rest you need or want.
It’s quite productive and efficient because you will become a specialist of your topics.
So, you will be better and faster than others at doing it.
To the first brother it seemed like the best option.
So, he started to work on what he found the most pleasant to him.
But, after a few times, he started to get bored to do the same thing every day.
He started to find it a bit constraining. To have to wake up early still tired by example.
And the time at work felt endless to him when he was so looking forward to seeing his family in the evening.
At this moment, he remembered the magic watch that he got on his 20th birthday.
He remembered his power : to skip the unpleasant times to go directly at the next ones.
So, he thought to skip all his work time.
He was aware than he may skip a huge part of his lifetime.
In fact he will have left only his evenings, week-ends, 4 weeks per year of holidays and the thing that humans call “retirement”. It’s full years without work at the end of human life when human society finds you too old to be as efficient as before at your work. Or we can see that as a way to thank you for your precedent work.
He was sad to skip this amount of time.
But, he was thinking than to live every day the same topic day was quite the same thing.
He consoles himself thinking than he will enjoy at the most, the rest of its left lifetime.
He calculates than he was exchanging lifetime against life quality.
So, it was still feeling to him as the best option.
After some time, he was quite disappointed when he noticed than important family moments with the person he loved had been spent during his skip work time.
After a few times, he also started to get bored about some routines.
For example, always to be at the supermarket at the same time as most tired and stressed people.
Or being in his car during long hours to go to each place.
Or to go to the laundry to wash his clothes…
He was thinking, why not to skip every constraining things?
If it’s repetitive, live several times the same is egal to live it only once.
So, he chose to skip all constraining repetitive moments.
In fact, he will have left only leisure moments.
He consoles himself thinking than he will enjoy at the most, the rest of its left lifetime.
He calculates than he was exchanging lifetime against life quality.
So, it was still feeling to him as the best option.
He went to be skipped to a moment where he was standing on a floating board with a paddle. He was paddling on a beautiful lake on a very expensive, but relaxing place.
He rowed in one direction and in another and another again and again.
And he finally started to wonder himself why he will still row in random directions without any goal.
The landscape was great, but he couldn’t prevent himself from starting to feel bored.
He noticed that random relaxing moments weren’t bringing to him any satisfaction.
So, he decided to skip all the leisure moments who were not shared with the loves of his life.
He consoles himself thinking than he will enjoy at the most, the rest of its left lifetime.
He calculates than he was exchanging lifetime against life quality.
So, it was still feeling to him as the best option.
He went to be skipped to a moment with his wife.
But he was disappointed because this moment was an argument.
He wasn’t able to understand her because he was absent too many moments of her life experiences.
He was hurt a lot about it.
He was feeling very sad.
So, he decided to skip all the hurting moments of his life.
He hesitated a bit before pressing the skip button of his watch.
He was wondering himself if, this time, he will still have something left to live.
He consoles himself thinking than he will enjoy at the most, the rest of its left lifetime.
He calculates than he was exchanging lifetime against life quality.
So, it was still feeling to him as the best option.
If nothing will be left, that will mean than life is not worth living…
He went to be skipped to a moment with his twin brother.
He noticed, very surprised that his twin wasn’t wearing the other magic watch.
His twin and himself weren’t that old. Even still pretty young…
So, he asked his twin, where was his other watch. Why he wasn’t wearing it and how he was able to do it without?
He was wondering about his brother if he haven’t calculated than the watch would allow to exchange lifetime against life quality.
And, watching at his so smiling and happy brother, he had a feeling…
He got the feeling than to leave the watch may to be the best option.
This day he learned a very important thing : we don’t have to exchange lifetime against life quality.
He has been proud of himself, thinking than this watch life experience brought him to enjoy at the most is full life.
By living every present moment, we are constantly learning, improving and enjoying our entire life.
Like his brother he continued his life without strategy to get the best life as possible by the easiest way as possible.
He was feeling happy when he was learning.
He noticed than he was learning at any time : in success as in mistakes, in comfortable moments as in more difficult ones.
He becomes very curious.
On a very beautiful day, he noticed than he was getting a huge pleasure and satisfaction from things he considered before as labour or a constraint.
This day he was going to the river by bike to hand-wash his clothes with the people he loved.
The supposed constraining ride was a great sportful moment in a beautiful landscape. Before he would have called that “leisure”.
The laundry product was made with his ash wastes from the stove that he had made.
The washing was a smooth bathing enchanted by the sound of lapping water and the soft feeling of the fabric rubbing.
He felt some tickling when cute little fishes nibbled his feets skins, leaving them so soft.
It was a wonderful moment of shared love than each will remember.
These things called “labour, constraints” and “leisure” that he previously separated distinctly in two categories seemed to get confused in his mind.
They now all seemed to go in both categories.
He noticed also that each thing was taking longer. In fact, he was happy about it because it was a pleasure and he wished that to keep going as long as possible.