Finally, there comes a time in life when you learn to give up certain dreams, certain friendships and certain loves that, at some point, meant everything, yet we do so knowing that the one who must return will return in another way, with other faces, with other more sincere smiles and with new winds capable of starting again, ten or a thousand times.
It is curious to see how the world of children’s literature offers us, on certain occasions, wonderful teachings for personal growth that deserve further reflection An example of this is?The wizard of Oz? Lyman Frank Baum. In this unforgettable literary work, we met a young woman who, driven by a strong tornado, arrives in a strange and unknown world.
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I’m someone else. -Lewis Carroll-
Since Dorothy arrives in the world of Oz, the young woman only wants one thing: to go home, gradually her initial fear of this terrifying new situation is waning thanks to her new and unique friends, her silver shoes and a very specific goal: to find the wizard of OZ to ask her to take her home. To achieve this, all you have to do is follow the path of the yellow bricks.
Thus, and after so many adventures and haplessness, the young protagonist discovers that in reality the power to return home has always been within herself, however, this fascinating journey is fundamental to awakening, one by one, her personal strengths and a unique bravery that we also keep in a corner of our being.
Getting lost, deviating from the usual methods is not as serious as it may seem at first glance, letting certain things go, certain people, projects, dreams and ambitions is also not a disgrace, because in the end what counts are the steps. Only in this way will we allow those who have to return at the right time, as we continue on this yellow brick path that is our personal growth or even that golden path that Buddhism speaks to us.
Andrea’s an engineer. She has created a sophisticated and original pet transport that adapts to the rear seats of cars, ensuring total safety and comfort for these animals, whenever she presents her project to a contractor, explains that her proposal would save the lives of countless animals that die in traffic accidents because they are not protected.
So far only one person has been interested in Andrea’s idea, but after that first “yes”, the company came back justifying that it would not be a profitable idea. However, our protagonist did not give up. She did not give up and did not allow any of her hopes to be thwarted. Andrea understands that she must keep working. He thought that perhaps he should innovate using cheaper but equally safe materials, perhaps it should be opened up to other markets, presenting his idea abroad?
She knows the opportunities will come back, but they will be back in due course and in the right place, Andrea is convinced that people and companies will be interested in her project and that’s why not one day she stops to invest her time. Chances are that this young engineer sooner or later triumphs because, as the philosopher José Antonio Marina tells us, talent is intelligence in action and, even though we think that everything is lost, the path of The Yellow Brick is still there . . . In front of us.
Losing, accepting no for an answer, failing, tripping three times with the same stone or even falling in love with the worst person in the world has one goal: to learn, in addition, all these holes along the way are equivalent to the need to improve. the strength of our vital goals, because after the tornado comes the calm and the obligation to have a personal goal much more beautiful, dignified, stronger and, above all, resilient.
Sooner or later, opportunities will come back and, when they are, we’ll be fully prepared.
The stars are so far away from us that even the closest starlight takes years to reach our little planet, however, sometimes we don’t remember, and there are nights when we keep pointing one by one without remembering that perhaps many of them don’t. exist, they may have exploded a long time ago, disintegrating in the cosmic void as dust.
Don’t go out, turn to yourself. The truth is in the inner man. -Holy Agostinho-
Everything that comes back is not authentic, we know that, it is like the light of these stars. Sometimes we lose a love and hope that a better, more passionate, brighter and more romantic one will return; other times, we miss an opportunity and hope to be as lucky and as soon as possible, in the blink of an eye. none of this is as fast as expected and is not happening as we had imagined.
You have to be patient and understand that things come back, that’s for sure, but they always come back differently: with a more peaceful and perhaps rewarding love, with a less bright opportunity, but perhaps more profitable.
It’s just a matter of being receptive and putting on, after all, the same silver shoes that Dorothy wore in The Wizard of Oz, because in reality, although the cinema made us see that they were red, imagined the author of the book Lyman Frank Baum . them in silver for a very specific reason.
Dorothy’s shoes represented the Money Thread? Spiritual growth. The bond through which we gain a clearer view of things and our own identity to attain wisdom. To understand that life is a journey in which we earn and lose things, in which nothing is permanent and that everything that comes for us is an exclusive gift that we must know how to enjoy.