"Every time you celebrate life, you celebrate the uniqueness of your experiences. Over time, this practice breaks down the barriers between the love you feel for yourself and the love you are able to give back to those around you."
Roberta
Quotes can be beautiful to read, they can inspire, they can encourage for brief moments but it often ends there, like a flash that vanishes after a split second. Life runs too fast and rarely allows moments of reflection. We might then begin to question, “To what extend quotes and affirmations can help us improving everyday life?
My answer is: it depends on how we read them. Let's go back for a moment to the word "celebrate" within the quote. We often think it as linked only and exclusively to events commonly perceived as positive, a birthday, a party, celebrations of important goals, a victory, a nice purchase or a new project. Although these are some of the reasons worthy of celebration, the phrase above urges us to look beyond the obvious. What is obvious, easily observable, often misleads us because makes us see only “one layer”, that is, the superficial one, or the easiest to grasp or comprehend. The celebration of life is something that goes beyond. The celebration of life in EVERY ASPECT is what makes it unique. We are able to perceive the different shades of joy, because we have experienced opposite sensations at some point along our journey. But modern society seems to be blind to the rest of the layers that contribute to determine what we call our life and reality. Ideals of happiness associated ONLY with success reserved to the best, the most beautiful, the fittest, richest, to those in power, to those who “count” because of their money or own a villa by the sea, is configured as nothing more illusory in order to achieve harmony in our lives. Modern society can be a tricky place in this sense. It might be pushing you to run towards a “destination happiness” that does not exist, or misguiding you on your journey. Only when we realize have wasted our time and resources looking for happiness in the only places where there was none, we have come a little closer to some aspects of ourselves.
The celebration of failure
No one is committed to promoting LOVE for failure. Because failure is inconvenient. We don't like it. We do little or no talk about it at all. But FAILURE is also the only ingredient that has elevated us through centuries of history, thanks to it we have moved forward in our lives too. This going forward by trial and error, through successes and failures is the only true natural law. None of us has invented it. We can at most adapt and understand its meaning. So why not celebrate successes and failures? Why not adopt this beautiful slogan within our family, schools, universities as well as in everyday life?
"I celebrate my successes and learn from failures"
Failure is a great opportunity to start again by doing better the second time. We must understand that life is a game where you NEVER LOSE, if you know the rules. Only with continuous experimentation can we understand the surrounding world. We are designed to understand life through the duality or multiplicity of our experiences, through moments of joy and sorrow, boredom and engagement, aloneness and connection. This vision does not encourage anyone to try at all costs to be happy every day, but to appreciate, celebrate and love ourselves ESPECIALLY on days when we do not feel at the top, when we feel that we are missing something. Because that state of mind is nothing more than an invitation to look beyond, to remind us that our body works for us, never against, and he will do it best if we give extra love and care and compassion.
All moments of life must therefore be celebrated because they determine our personal approach to it. It will determine which lens we are going to use to reading it.
Based on which lens we use, we be able to interpret reality differently, but this time aware that reality does not change. We have changed our way of thinking, we have evolved, and we are still doing it, we are committed, like a child who falls and gets up again, we are moving forward, we are all supporting each other along the journey, in a more or less evident manner.
When this is fully understood, one cannot but love oneself with all one's strength, one cannot but love the package of fragility with which we come into the world. We cannot fail to recognize part of ourselves in others.
Because you and I are much more similar than different.
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