Phrases by Francesc Miralles to enjoy the little things in life

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“Enjoy! If you can’t enjoy your job, change. Dont wait!”. Osho

The controversial Osho has left us many phrases in which affirmed that creation never ends, it is always ongoing because each person is creating himself day after day.

I once attended a almost magical act of creation of one’s own destiny. While I was working as a language teacher, a young man in his early twenties contacted me to do two hours of English conversation a week.

I accepted with reservations, since I considered that a native teacher would be more appropriate for this job. This fear was reinforced when I heard him speak the language, since he had a better accent than I did. However, none of that seemed to matter to him.

Lying on the sofa in my house, he began to talk freely about a project he had in mind. I understood that English was the least important, because what he wanted was to talk about his dreams in a kind of informal psychoanalysis.

He told me that after a traffic accident he had to abandon his sports career (he had been a professional soccer goalkeeper) and that in his opinion Throughout life, human beings only have two or three passions and, therefore, we must surrender to them.

He had decided to be an advertising creative, although I had no studies in that field. I asked him how he planned to carry out that second passion and he told me that he had thought of an advertising campaign in which the product would be him, who would offer to work for agencies.

In the two months I had this student I witnessed the failure of his first campaign and the astonishing success of his second. In her he had limited himself to send by letter something similar to a lottery ticket with your face in the center and the phone below. The motto was: “She won the lottery for you.”

The proposal was so shocking that two advertising agencies contacted him and one gave him a test: You were asked for an idea for a brand of screws that wanted to insert a full-page ad in an industry magazine.

The next day he presented himself with a photograph where the Earth was seen from space and below the slogan: “We help sustain the world.” The aspiring publicist was hired immediately. Today he is head of marketing for a major supermarket chain.

It had all started as a game for which he only needed a home printer and his willingness to go beyond the limits of reason.

In the end, everyday magic allies with those people who know how to appreciate the value of the small and are not scared by their own dreams, because often their fulfillment depends only on being attentive to the subtle signs that life sends.