Dear readers, after a few weeks I’ve returned. I needed time with myself to understand and accept certain things that were happening to me internally…
We’ve all experienced that moment where we have a temptation to which we shouldn’t surrender.
This week I read a quote that said:
“If you go on a journey in search of truth, don’t limit yourself, accept everything that happens to you as a lesson, and the true it will not be hidden from you.”
Personally, I believe that many people don’t understand about finding balance among all the things they manage in their life. Often they want to have control over everything, and that can be detrimental to their mental peace.
To maintaining your balance, you can’t maintain a passive balance, remember that balance is active, as it involves constant decision-making all the time to keep yourself right where life isn’t boring.
Last week I was talking with a person who’s super special to me at this moment in my life, who told me that many times people don’t find balance due to the influence of their emotions. They also added that we can’t live fearing emotions, but instead, we should ask ourselves why we’re feeling them. These were the central ideas of our conversation. I consider this person to possess a lot of wisdom, but no one owns the truth from their own opinion.
He also mentioned that there’s an invisible line, which he called ‘happiness’, saying that happiness is parallel to the line of life (I must admit that I’ve always seen existence as instrument, like the strings of a guitar, and how important it is to create our own melody), but anyway, this is more easily affected by the influence of external events. He gave 2 examples: money and death.
Personally, I don’t consider that the string of happiness is influenced by money. Pappa always told me that ‘cats, women, and money can’t be forced to stay close, or else they run away from you’.
When he mentioned these examples, he did so asserting that money influences people’s mood changes. However, personally, I believe that money is the means to achieve many things. You know what people say, “It’s not the same to have a broken heart and cry in a Ferrari as it is to cry in a taxi” hehe
I’ve even cried in one of the best hotels in the world, and the pain feels just as empty but with a bottle of champagne next to it… phew, blessed 2022!
However, my point is that money doesn’t influence your happiness but rather the environment around you.
Personally, I think, as I’ve mentioned to you in past posts, happiness is fresh water. If we align this analogy, with mine about the guitar strings, we could unite them and say that happiness is musical notes, which create our life melody, as well as sadness.
Perhaps, many life lessons I write, he already lived, but well, it’s valid, they’re a few years ahead of me.
With this introduction, I want you to understand that the events that happen to us are the product of our decisions, which will always face 2 paths. Let’s try, as much as we can, not to affect third parties.
In one of my past posts, I told you that if you can’t fight temptation, give in to it. Today I can tell you that with the years you learn that self-control shows you the path with fewer regrets.
Happiness is always conditioned, and sadness is something that just happens. In the end, we only have one day at a time to make correct decisions.
Two paths, dear reader – the inability to see from the right perspective can attract pain, or happiness – sometimes we have a treasure by our side, and the desire to explore prevents us from valuing it.
Reflect on how something like giving value to the things/people we have in our life can fill and empty something inside us. In some cases, it may seem like a deficiency when it’s not valued or our expectations aren’t clear, this will leave emptiness, like when a worm eats your apple and rots it. In this analogy, the apple is you.
Remember, we are biodegradable beings within our humanity. Remember that recognizing that our decisions can be the “pesticide” or the “preservative” in face of the different challenges we face every day. The truth is within you!
The forbidden apple is temptation, but what’s the melody you want to play in your life?
Beware of the worm in your mind!
Bye now! 💝
