Life Is What Happens While We Make Other Plans
In life, your strengths are greater than your doubts and your job is to experiment to be aware of how difficult it is to sustain yourself without understanding the importance of these values. Do not be fooled because you no longer need to have the best and latest on the market, make the most expensive trip, have a resounding success or achieve the ideal body with the blow of the scalpel.
“When I truly loved myself, I understood that, in any circumstance, I was in the right place, at the right time, and at the right time, and then I was able to relax.
Today I know that it has a name … Self-esteem
When I truly loved myself, I could perceive that my anguish, and my emotional suffering, is nothing more than a sign that I am going against my own truths.
Today I know that this is … Authenticity
When I truly loved myself, I stopped wishing my life were different, and began to accept everything that happens that contributes to my growth.
Today that is called … Maturity
When I truly loved myself, I began to perceive that it is offensive to try to force some situation, or person, just to do what I want, even knowing that it is not the time, or the person is not ready, including myself.
Today I know that the name of that is … Respect
When I truly loved myself, I began to rid myself of everything that was unhealthy: people, situations, and anything that pushed me down. At first my reason called that attitude selfishness.
Today is called … Self Love
When I truly loved myself, I stopped being afraid of free time and gave up making big plans, I abandoned mega-projects for the future. Today I do what I find right, what I like, when I want, and at my own pace.
Today I know that this is … Simplicity and simplicity
When I truly loved myself, I gave up wanting to always be right, and thus I erred less often.
Today I discovered that this is … Humility
When I truly loved myself, I gave up staying reliving the past, and worrying about the future. Now, I stay in the present, which is where life happens.
Today I live one day at a time. And that is called … Fullness
When I truly loved myself, I realized that my mind can torment and disappoint me. But when I place her at the service of my heart, she has a great and valuable ally.
All that is… Knowing How to Live
-Charles Chaplin-
What is life?
John Lennon once said that ” life is what happens while we are making other plans” , as if there were no time limit, when in reality time is the finest thing there is and will always come to an end.
We wake up every day as if we had eternity to understand what it is to fulfill ourselves and take a step beyond our goals. We forget that the transience of the sand when passing to the other side of the clock is our option to go to the other side and continue climbing the mountain. We also forget that, for the moment, it is the only life that we have the certainty of being able to share.
You can stop to think that perhaps something is escaping you and you can reflect on what are the values that you have not yet understood, if you care so much about doing what society understands as the greatest or what is important to you. It is not that it is incompatible, it is that the main thing is what you feel.
We live in a world that does not allow us to realize that, day after day, the sun goes down very early. We are so busy dreaming and programming the future that we spend our present time packing up those dreams we plan to fulfill one day and sending them to a destination we may never be in.
The inexorable passage of time
We postpone our life to a better time in which we have more hours in the day or we have managed to meet our goals. And, with this, we forget that our watch does not know the world beyond the 24 hours that it knows how to mark and that the option of fighting with our dreams is what it gives us today.
We have forgotten that living is understanding that time passes bluntly and that it gives us the option of appreciating the little things that truly loving ourselves offers us. Precisely living consists of this, in knowing how to recognize and appreciate the paths that give us clues to understand that our better half is within us and that it does not make much sense to look outside for the most important thing that life offers us.
So, as you prepare to disrupt your world so that all of this happens, don’t forget to keep in mind that something Benjamin Franklin said:
