Aspirations in the clouds....

"Aspirations in the clouds, but your hopes go down the drain."

I believe this applies to all of us in that we sometimes have high hopes and big dreams which often end in disappointment.  Some people just wallow in that disappointment for days, months, even years. 

I liken it to boxers who get punched in the face with combinations early on in a fight and cannot just brush it off.  What happens is that as the fight progresses, they are still thinking about the combination that got them.  This causes them to be unable to go back to their original plan and win the fight. 

I think the best fighters are able to brush off the punches or absorb them and stick to their fight plan.  Similarly, people (ie: me) often times get stuck in their disappointment and cannot rebound to go on with life. 

I believe this is true because human beings always put more weight on events that happened recently, even though there is not always any connection between the past and the future.  If you flipped a coin 5 times and it came up heads each time, it does not make the odds of heads any greater than 50% on the sixth flip.  Yet that is how we think, after seeing many flips of heads in a row.  We become very caught up in what just happened to us recently (especially if it is negative) and lose sight of the bigger picture.

One for the road,
"Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now."

Jimmy