What You Learn About Life Over Time
Laughing, crying, jumping, stumbling, saying goodbye, coming back, waiting, dealing with life, falling in love, eating chocolate, smelling a perfume, making mistakes, fixing them, writing a love letter, healing a broken heart, listening to your favorite song , be surprised, get angry, think, breathe…
We could move on, give free rein to our imagination and think of all that is worthy and joyful. But more than anything else, this article is a wish. A wish that you live fully every day of your life.
We should sing, dance, talk and shout. But too often we become robots, who are more concerned about our busy schedules than filling our lives with colors.
Life is fleeting, and we often waste it
Do not fool yourself; You do not have to have the best and newest product on the market, go on the most expensive journey, be resoundingly successful, or have a perfectly sculpted body using plastic surgery. Especially when you reach a certain age, it just doesn’t matter that much anymore. But unfortunately, it takes us too long to realize this.
As John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens while you make other plans.” We pretend that our time is not limited, when time is in fact the finest thing in the world, and it always reaches its end.
We forget that the sand moves through the hourglass so fast, and that it is up to us to move to the other side and continue to climb the mountain. And we also forget that right now is the only time we are guaranteed to have together.
What we learn about life over time
It takes time and self-love to begin this journey, even if it is not out of necessity. In the following text, Jorge Luis Borges discusses how being aware of the passage of time is often what gives us more awareness in life. We hope you enjoy reading about it!
Over time , I learned the subtle difference between taking someone else’s hand and locking a person’s soul. Over time, I learned that love does not mean leaning on someone, and that having company does not mean security.
Over time, I began to realize that kisses are not contracts, gifts or promises. Over time, I learned that being with someone because they can offer you a good future means that sooner or later you will want to go back to your past.
Over time… you realize that getting married just because “it’s time” is a clear warning that your marriage will go wrong.
Over time, I realized that only someone who can love you with all your faults, without trying to change you, can give you all the happiness you want. Over time, you learn that if you are with that person just because you feel lonely, you will inevitably get to the point where you will not see them again.
Over time, you realize that true friends are worth a lot more than money. Over time, I came to understand that true friends can be counted on one hand, and that if you do not fight for them, at some point you will be surrounded by mere false friendships.
Over time, I learned that words spoken in a moment of anger can continue to hurt the other person for the rest of their lives. Over time, I learned that anyone can apologize, but only great souls can forgive.
Over time, I learned that if you have really hurt a friend, the friendship will probably never be the same again. Over time, you will realize that even if you are happy with the friends you have, one day you will cry for those you let go of.
Over time, you realize that any experience you have with someone can never be experienced again. Over time, you realize that sooner or later, the people who humiliated or degraded others will suffer four times as much from humiliation and contempt.
Over time, you learn to pave all your paths in the present, because tomorrow’s terrain is too uncertain for you to make plans. Over time, I realized that if you try to push or force something to happen, it just will not go as you expected or hoped.
Over time, you realize that in reality, the best will not come later; That’s the moment you’re living in right now. Over time, you will see that even if you are happy with what you have, you will long for the things you had yesterday that are now gone.
Over time, I learned that it no longer makes sense to try to forgive, ask for forgiveness, say “I love you,” say “I miss you,” say “I need you,” or say “I want to be your friend,” when you see death on your face.
We procrastinate and save things for a better time, until we have several hours during the day, or until we have managed to achieve our goals. And when we do this, we forget that the clock knows nothing else beyond the 24 hours it can measure, and that the opportunity to fight for our dreams is what gives us today’s gift.
We have forgotten that living is to understand that time goes by without stopping, but it still gives us the opportunity to appreciate the little things that allow us to truly love one another. Living is about knowing how to recognize and appreciate the trail of breadcrumbs that help us understand that our other half is already inside us, and that it does not make much sense to search externally for the most important things that can give us life.
