On another note, in my opinion the only thing worse than mental stress is boredom. The lack of any emotion at all, or the desire to apply yourself when you have no medium to do it on.

Good point. Maybe what should be done is temporarily “stepping out” of our life, what Frank Lucas calls “backtracking” (I think Ryan mentioned him also in a post of his) – in short, this guy would isolate himself completely for several weeks and think about everything going on in his life and what to do next.

I did the Camino de Santiago two years ago, and one of the best things about it was being isolated from people and, slowly but surely, disconnecting yourself from your life and all the shit happening in it. After some time you come into this strange state of being really indifferent about everything. In addition, since you’re walking all day long, you have LOTS of time to think – I could look at my life from a really different perspective.

But it’s easier that way, when you look at the past, you already know all of the solutions to the problems the “you” in the past had. To want to go back, I think, is the wish of being able to foresee and deal with any problem that arises. This entry kind of reminded me of the play “Our Town” (which can be extremely boring.) I won’t go into detail as to what it’s about, but here’s the moral of the story: Don’t take the everyday events of your life for granted, because -that’s- exactly what you’re going to miss when you don’t have it all anymore.

Hopefully, someday, I will realize that without hindsight.

If more people acted in the now with the idea in mind of how they would regard their own actions later on then people would have a lot less regrets I imagine.