A monologue using cooking as a metaphor to argue that single life events shouldn't be judged alone. The speaker walks through thought experiments like a lottery win followed by a plane crash to show why we can't know if any moment is truly good or bad.
Good evening, everyone. I'm here to tell you something. Well, I always tell you something in my videos. That's usually the goal. But this time I have something I'd like to share with you. You know, sometimes you invite people over and you want to make a dish, and someone always asks you what's in it. And then you'll describe your recipe, for example, and. And what you put in it. And invariably someone will jump on an ingredient and say, oh, but I don't like parsley or oregano or this or that. When in fact, this thing or ingredient is just one ingredient in the dish, just part of it. It's not there, by the way, when you taste the dish, it won't be something that will be dominant or particularly present in the dish. It's part of the refinement of the dish. And so even if no one eats basil like that, we would find it acceptable in a recipe if used appropriately. You know those kinds of people, don't you? And sometimes you almost don't want to. You regret having talked about your recipe. And often I'm reluctant. Often I prefer not to tell people to avoid that kind of reaction because, in fact, when they taste the thing, they. They love it. Oh, that's great. But in fact, if you had described beforehand how you were going to prepare it, with what, half of your ingredients would have jumped off the list. That's an example. Today I had an event in my life. Well, it's not a huge thing. It's just something I wanted to do that didn't happen. And so on. It happens. And in fact, I've noticed that in other times, maybe a year ago or six months ago, the fact that I wasn't able to achieve this goal would have left me disappointed. But today, not at all. Deep down, I would have been happy to achieve this goal, and I'm completely happy not to have achieved it. I believe that we can't judge life based on these individual events. It's a bit like a dish. We can't judge a dish based on individual ingredients. It's clear that if I put a spoonful of salt in your mouth, you're going to spit it out. A spoonful of pepper in your mouth, you're going to spit it out, too. Whereas a perfectly seasoned dish is excellent. Well, it's the same. I mean, I think it's true for me, I'm talking about myself, but I hope it can help other people, because I think that for me, I gave too much importance to events that are, in fact, just ingredients in Life. There's no reason, for example, to find life sad because there's something in particular that didn't work out or didn't work out. How would you like it? Because then you become like the guy who judges a very complicated dish with 50 ingredients based on the fact that he doesn't like basil. That's the idea I was trying to get across to you by starting this video. And also, it must be said that when it comes to individual events, it's extremely difficult to know what's good and what's bad. For us, it's not easy. You know, for example, you can win the lottery. There's a guy, he wins the lottery and then he says to himself, hey, I'm going to go to the Caribbean. He takes off for the Caribbean and then the plane crashes and he's dead. Is it good to win the lottery or not? You know what I mean? That's it. I mean, we have a hard time because we don't have all the information. We only have individual elements. And we can't always know if these individual elements are good or bad. I don't know. There's a guy. There's a guy who dies in a car accident. If he had stayed home for 30 more seconds to brush his teeth, he wouldn't have died. Do you understand? So you can't know a small event as simple as brushing your teeth for 2 minutes or 2 minutes, 30 seconds, this small difference of nothing at all can have a meaning on your life and the lives of many people. You see, Whereas things that may be huge have no importance. The fact is, I recognize today that I recognize. This is what I realize, in fact, that I cannot estimate with absolute certainty whether a particular individual event in my life is positive or negative. I cannot know it with great certainty. So what I do is tell myself, well, this is the path. This is the path of life. If this thing happens, it means that the path of life is made with the realization of this thing. If it doesn't happen, I tell myself that the path of my life is made without this thing. But I cannot know which path is good. So I tell myself that since I can't know well, I tell myself that the path I'm following is the right one. Right? That's it. I try to have this positive attitude, but it's not even an attitude because it's really internal. It's really not intellectualization. It's me trying to understand a feeling because it's something really silly. But I know that I would have complained for three days a year ago, and now I'm easy with it. There you go. I try to understand my difference in attitude. I feel that there is a difference in attitude. That's my neighbor. He's backing up. And if he had crashed into me, if he had smashed my car, I would have suddenly been a little less. I would have suddenly been a little less. That means I would have said everything I just said. Well, if he had run into me, maybe that would have been a good thing, too. Maybe I wouldn't have worked so hard. I would have stayed and I don't know. You know, these are things in life. There you go. The guy smokes too much. He's stopping for a bit. Okay, bye. I'll leave you, and I wish you all the best.
