Expect less. Allow yourself one day and the next day too. Dare, cool off in the small space of a hug to make you feel bigger. Run from time to time. Get on that train we thought we were once lost. Dreaming of open eyes like there’s no tomorrow?All these things that make us feel alive are priceless and give us happiness.
It is not the same to live as to feel alive, however, it is not always easy to reach those almost perfect states where all our fibers awaken, where our senses are in harmony and, for a moment, everything takes on meaning, transcendence and harmony. It is very difficult to feel really alive in a world where we are encouraged to adopt a passive and dependent attitude.
“Laughter is the sun that draws winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo-
Our reality is orchestrated by the almost continuous pressure that we lack something, through this we have become natural consumers, people who want to own or achieve things with which we fill an eternal sense of emptiness. Why is there always something we want, something, we don’t have: another product, another job, a more loving couple, a trip to an exotic country?The things, dimensions and states we seek to have to feel (supposedly) realized.
We are like a triangular piece trying to fit into an oval shaped puzzle, we focus a lot on our environment, we want to integrate into it, forgetting that happiness comes from a very specific place: the same one that is under our own skin. It is a habitat that we often forget to feed with the ingredient that really makes us feel alive: passion.
One of the greatest risks we can face is living in a state of permanent passivity, in which we get carried away, carried away by stimuli and circumstances, limiting ourselves only to existing, but not to feel. obligations to the point where life itself sooner or later becomes another obligation. Then hope is diluted from our horizon and we give way to an aseptic and aimless existence.
We have to be clear: to live is to get involved. It means taking risks, being brave even if fear bites, and not having it, but dozens of reasons to get up every day. Sometimes, and there’s our mistake, we choose the simplest path: conformism.
We adjust to what we already have, even if it is not of our size and does not bring us happiness, so we do because it is better to have a bird in hand than a hundred ruffles, however when we open our hands, there is not a bird, only feathers, just the sad look of what seemed to be a promise, but in reality it was nothing. Just a dream, a false security.
The things that make us feel alive do not appear in the way that others trace us, not even in the golden cages of our everyday comfort zones. To live the vitality and happiness that give meaning to everything, you have to have passion. stop thinking about the conditional (if it had it, if it was, if it did?) To act in the here and now, in the immediate present that we possess our steps, explorers of our reality and architects of our dreams.
Dare and fail. Go back and try again, ten and twelve times, and then, okay?To be successful. A mid-afternoon walk to get new ideas. Practice a sport. The satisfaction of a job well done. A hand that will hold us at the most necessary moment. A moment of solitude. The complicity of friends. A way to make a couple. Our afitions and pleasures. A child’s laughter. Finish one step and start another with more desire, more fear, but with more strength?
These things that make us feel alive are those that inflame our souls, they are the basis of our being, the dreams of our projects, the reasons for our behaviors and the energy of our capacity for growth, their presence is fundamental, because otherwise our woven psychology and our resistance will disappear. And then the most dangerous thing happens: the emptiness and the certainty that existence itself doesn’t make sense.
Living this void is the opposite of feeling life and, therefore, we must be able to defend ourselves from it, to fill every room, every corner and corner of our mind with these things that give us meaning, so said Viktor Frankl in his day. . The father of logotherapy and survivor of several concentration camps taught us in his books that our mission as human beings is to find a purpose, to take responsibility for ourselves and the human being so that we feel complete, realized and free.
The things that really make us feel alive are made of a unique material: illusion, each of us will have to find those personal goals and have the courage to capture them, to make them our reason, our true daily passion. as Helen Keller once said, if anyone wants to fly, she doesn’t have to crawl, even if others do.