Hello, Reflections community. Today we woke up doing a bit of philosophizing. While looking through my photos, I came across these pictures I took a few years ago, and without realizing it, they led me to reflect.
There are places in the world that aren't perfect.
They don't try to be pleasant, they don't seek to be beautiful, nor do they aim to inspire immediate admiration.
And yet, they hold a certain something... something that can't be explained with words... something that goes beyond what is visible. It's something that can only be felt in sensations, a mixture of wonder, tranquility, and a silence that is almost frightening.
This place, with its long staircase surrounded by dense vegetation, doesn't draw attention for its form, but for what it awakens in those who walk it.
It's not an easy path.
It's not quick.
It's not comfortable.
But it is honest.
There are spaces that don't seduce us, but that, when viewed from another perspective, transform us.
Each step invites you to move forward without haste, to maintain your own pace, to accept fatigue, to continue even when the end is not in sight.
As is the case with many internal processes.
There are stages in life that resemble these places: they aren't perfect, they aren't bright, they aren't celebrated.
But they contain a depth that is only revealed when we stop demanding beauty and begin to inhabit the experience.
This place doesn't beautify the path. It envelops it. And in that silence, it teaches...
...that true transformation doesn't happen in what is visible, but in what we go through when no one is watching.
Thank you for reading. Muñoz Pino Family
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