It's one thing to be told that life brings no guarantees and quite another to be told that everything can go to hell in a single blink, or in a flutter of butterflies... Kind of like chaos theory.
Because the reality is that the life of us human beings is fragile because health is not promised and time is not renewed and yet we continue to live as if our margin of life were infinite, as if there were or there was an after to fix what we cannot face today.
And what happens with what I'm talking about is that every day that we live like this, we're paying a price that we don't see because we behave as if we were indestructible, but deep down we're betting that nothing serious happens, that our body endures, that the relationship resists, that tomorrow comes to have the conversation that we always avoid today, even to give the hug that we hold back today to make the decision that we keep postponing today.
And to think that this price is not charged at once, it is charged in distance, in emptiness, in things that we could do and did not do, in people that we could take care of and let pass and we only realize what it cost us when there is no way to recover it.
Be very careful with the awareness of finiteness is not to become dramatic or to live in fear, stop being silly, it's to structure, because really when we understand that there are no guarantees... The gap between the life we are living and the life we could live, would only be if we stopped negotiating with ourselves and I think this would be unbearable.
And that's when we choose differently, value and measure differently what we do with our time. In addition, it is these moments when we stop wasting energy on what does not add up and start looking more seriously and responsibly at what we are building with our daily choices and decisions.
So if you read this today and some of this moves you inside, the question is not if you agree with this that I write from my experience, the question is that even knowing this, are we going to continue living exactly the same tomorrow?
Maybe this is a devastating reality, but we have to live the present with all its ups and downs, time is infinite, but life is not. This happened to me, life is today, by then it's late and it's not cliché.
We often spend our lives on unimportant things. To honor life means to live it with intention and in the present tense. Let's make it possible, let's not leave anything for later, we have to love, forgive in time, so as not to live with anger, with bitterness... That's it, which is fine!.
Janitze 🪬
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