It’s not for a few sentences that we’ll change our lives, but who knows, listening to them, something changes inside and enters your mind and heart like a sincere, direct ball. Some phrases describe so well what is happening to us that, in addition to making us think, they seem like an invitation to change.
We may not be used to reading great reflections, a philosophy book or a film that challenges all our dogmas and prejudices, but most people remember certain phrases that marked and made them. Reflect. One of them is perhaps one of the three sentences that we invite you to read in the rest of this text.
- The first sentence comes not from any philosopher.
- And we think that the boxer who said it never thought of one.
- But sometimes the most direct things are the most sincere and those that contain a deeper message.
- Simple.
- Easy and direct.
This phrase was uttered by boxer Mike Tyson and contains a very strong message, which can establish a link between box and life, we all have a plan in our lives, we believe that we can follow it smoothly and that the wind will be in our favor. This happens until the first difficulty appears and, with it, fears and doubts.
You may be convinced that you’re going to do something, and all of a sudden, life can give you a good hook: the diagnosis of illness, aggression, or the betrayal of a loved one. Your life goes on, but you never will, be the same again.
The Other American Story? It is an unforgettable and very forceful film that tells naked and raw the impact of Nazi ideology on an environment of young Americans. The coexistence between blacks and whites begins to become dangerous and tense due to racist ideas. of leader Cameron Alexander and the impact it has on the minds of some young people, especially the film’s protagonist, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton).
Derek is an intelligent and sensitive young man, who begins to listen to his father’s racist ideas and internalizes them. On the other hand, his friendship with Cameron, the leader of the community-based neo-Nazi group, radicalized Derek in the face of the helpless gaze of his school’s principal, the African-American Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks).
Derek ends up murdering two African-Americans at his doorstep, in front of his entire family, after this episode he was arrested, and it was in prison that all his prejudices about blacks collapsed, mainly because of the friendship he established with one of them. .
One day Derek is raped in the shower by a group of neo-Nazis who distrust his attitude and friendship with a black boy, attack him to humiliate him and consider him a traitor, when he is in the infirmary, he receives a visit from his friend and school principal, who asks, “Has your life improved something you’ve done so far?”
Derek collapses because he’s aware that everything he’s done for racist values has ended up shattering everything he’s had in life, if we’re ever in a very dark pit and we don’t know what we’ve done to be there, we should ask ourselves that question.
It is clear that we will be able to recognize all the toxic patterns that have led us to this situation, which does not exclude that we have gone through difficult situations and that we have had little luck in our way, we always have some responsibility. , either too much or too little. Using topics like emotional catharsis can help us change.
Today we are immersed in a world where suffering must be avoided at all costs, where the religions of the Western world have less and less impact, and many of them are not even being used to appease the present life of human beings. He took an unparalleled path to endure pain, humiliates us and we live in it in silence, filling us with medicine and increasingly alone.
Virginia Woolf is the author of this third sentence, and current trends in psychology, such as ACT, seem to support it. It is to avoid not suffering from excessive stress, one of the evils of our time: it is avoided by the inherent guilt in the face of the impossibility of not achieving models of success and well-being.
These words, in the midst of many phrases left to us by Virginia Woolf, help us to face life and situations that we do not like, we are social beings and we need them, by avoiding these situations you will always find pain and isolation, Never peace. Loneliness is wonderful when it’s a choice, not something self-imposed because we’re afraid of the world.