On two ends of the world..

[TimeHeals]

. For some reason I was uplifted. I walked around Louvre and the whole matter seemed so surreal, like it was a dream or something.

The power of just Being. Or in the vernacular of Phillip Zimbardo, present (hedonism or holism) perspective. I vote for present hedonic perspective (holism is more that Budhist idea that the only thing that all time is Now).

At the most basic level, we want to enjoy ourselves, and there rarely is a reason not to enjoy ourselves, but our "mind" (pre-established patterns of thinking) can sometimes choose to focus on painful experiences (past, present, and future-anticipated) to the point it makes us miserable.

Balance is about being able to tap into the present good (hedonic or holistic), reflect on what we have learned or remember good things (past-positive), and still take care of business and make progress by anticipating reasonable consequences (future-positive).

You have to be very high on present hedonic/holistic, and fairly high on the other two perspectives to be balanced.

When somebody is very, very miserable (past-negative,present fatalistic, or skewed too much to the future), a good thing to do is to get them to focus more on the present (stopping to smell the proverbial roses), remember the good things, and set nearer-term, easily acheivable goals. Restore balance.

We are all time travelers: we travel from the Now to the Back Then and then to the Some Day.

Time (or your perspective on it) really can Heal.