You, me and our neighbors live in a bubble where there are several weak constraints, designs or accommodations, very weak, and they are so because they hardly support us when we open our eyes to a broader reality and dare to take different paths. , away from the comfort of walking by what is already known.
On many occasions, our limited gazes perpetuate certain stereotypes and prejudices, we only see what we want to see, what we can appreciate from where we are sitting.
- However.
- The truth is that the world is much richer than our senses are able to reveal when working in an environment that is part of that bubble we talked about at first.
- Let’s take an example and understand it better.
It is said that the Argentine national football team was focused on preparing for a major league. Not long ago, the players won the World Cup. The trainer had prepared a training session a little longer than usual, about three hours.
This story tells how players complained to their coach, didn’t understand why world champions had to train whether they were already the best, in the face of these complaints, the technician suspended training and allowed them to return to the hotel. .
Knowing their coach, the players suspected this would not be the case. And, in fact, no. The next day, everyone woke up at five in the morning and called the hotel reception. When they got on the bus, everyone thought they were expecting punishment training for the previous day’s attitude.
Still?
The bus passed directly and left the training camp to dive into the big city. He parked in front of a subway station and the players only received an order to observe. Within an hour, they saw hundreds of people coming down the stairs, dressed more or less humbly, in their jobs.
Many of them still had a long way to go until they reached the workplace, then a great speed and a new way back. The coach reminded players that people earning a negligible amount of their salary trained more than eight hours a day, and that the vast majority, upon returning home, had no prepared food or clean house.
The coach pulled them out of their bubble and made them look at reality, it was a call to humility. A reminder to those who had forgotten that even though they were world champions, they were still?The same as the ones who’ve seen it. The same people who got up when their children had not yet woken up and went home when their children were already asleep.
All of us, at some point, were the Argentine national team, we polished our mood or that of others with unfair complaints, without leaving our bubble and looking at the world like the rest of human beings who are in a much worse situation than ours.
This is not to say that we should abandon the desire to choose what we consider best, but it is just a reminder, an alert so that these aspirations do not end up blinding us, generating a frustration that makes no sense when we look at reality with Open Our Eyes. Six o’clock in the morning, in front of a subway station.