Giving up may not seem like it but it’s an act of courage

Much importance is given to what you achieve, to what you achieve, to how much you win in life. However, few remember that it will sometimes be necessary to give up, to give up many things and some people, if we want to persist in the pursuit of a goal. Sometimes you even have to give up.

Give up chasing people who don’t include you in any of their plans, who barely remember that you exist, who put your name at the end of any list. Don’t humiliate yourself for those who can’t see everything you have to offer. Get close to those who smile when they see you arrive, who are willing to listen to what you have to say, who answer your calls, your messages, your look.

You have to give up investing in what has no future, to spend energy and time drawing up plans that don’t match who you are. Don’t get lost among hypocritical people, who know the price of your shoes, but don’t know the date of your birth. Invest in your quality of life, in dreams that meet what is inside you, what makes your heart vibrate.

It is necessary to give up being satisfied with little, with halves, it is necessary to stop conforming to what could – and should – be much better. Don’t walk through less colorful, less lit, less special crossings, because you think it’s already good. Always looking for more, looking for wholeness, breadth, affective bonanza, overflowing love, stomach-aches of laughter. Seek to fill the exact dimension of your highest dreams, nothing less.

You have to give up feeling sorry for yourself, whining in the corners, while we waste the moments that are worth it. Don’t envy, don’t compare yourself with the other, don’t forget what and who is already with you. We will never be defeated as long as there is life, as long as we can get up each morning with everything in front of us waiting for us.

We won’t always be well, we won’t always be able to count on people, we won’t always be able to contain the tears that insist on falling. We will face endless days and nights, without light, moments of pain and discouragement. We will have inconsolable losses, painful disappointments, darkness from which we will not be able to see a way out. However, giving up suffering for everything that is useless will strengthen us. Because at that moment we will have made the surrenders that save.

Marcel Camargo