How many times have we thought about the life we left behind? What if we made another choice, if we made a different decision and so on? The strange thing is that when we think about those now lost "opportunities", we almost always have the feeling that if we had chosen another path, than the one we eventually followed, everything would have been better, more successful and more interesting for us. Truly, it is wonderfully curious this process into which the human mind often-densely enters, while even more remarkable is its tendency to accept as wrong every decision we have made to date and to consider -almost certainly- as successful, the other one we have never taken.
So what is it that torments man? Where does he support this obsession of his to doubt the quality of what he has and to dream of what he does not have? Is it a "machine" that works in the background of his brain, simple bequest of his nature or is it the openness of his spirit, trapped in realities incompatible with human existence, which silently screams for its freedom, creating through its "prison" the feeling of the unsatisfied? Would the same happen if man chose to change his way of life, if he chose to be harmonised more with the nature around him? If he threw away the alarm clocks and cut off his obnoxious habit of being associated with anything shiny and stopped picking, like another trash picker, anything material? Who knows? The only certain thing, in my opinion, is that whatever decision or choice we made about our lives, we would still be chasing the Ghost of the other one that we never made. Alekos Lidorikis in his theatrical play, "The Great Moment", deals with exactly this unsatisfying of human nature, proving to all of us the futility that we daily worship.
Thoughts about a ghost. Irene F. Fotis, December 2019.
