Hello to all you Vazaunauts and little Vazaunettes
I came across this anecdote while reading, which makes us reflect on our way of thinking and reacting in our everyday lives, and I thought I would share it with you so that you, in turn, can reflect on your mental processes and the impact they have on your life.
Here is the anecdote: A sailor, wanting to go check the cargo of a refrigerated container, accidentally finds himself locked inside. No matter how much he screams or bangs, no one hears him, and the ship begins its multi-day voyage to another continent. Convinced that he is going to die, the sailor resigns himself to spending his last days in a container where he will freeze to death. To get through this ordeal, he decides to carve every stage of his dying process into the container walls with a piece of metal. Several days later, the ship arrives at its destination, and they discover the sailor’s body, dead, along with all the details of his agony: the numbness, the extremities turning blue and becoming brittle like thin ice, and so on. The most surprising thing was that it was 19 degrees inside the container; since there were no perishable goods, they had not activated the refrigeration. Yet the corpse had all the symptoms of someone who had died of cold. The sailor was so convinced that he would freeze to death that his mind convinced his body, and you know the rest.
Here is something to think about… Don’t you think?
Good thinking!
Barbie