Take life easy

If you were to die tomorrow, what would you like to do today?. Who would you spend your time with? What activities would you like to do for the last time? This approach, which may be somewhat extreme, helps us discover how far we are from our true self. And it invites us to remember the affirmation that will bring peace when the mind dominates us: take life calmly.

It is not easy to carry out this proposal. The world is not made for us to find calm, for us to live and enjoy the present. On the contrary, They continually bombard us with obligations and demands coated with an urgency that is not such.

You must study, you must work, you have to succeed, compete, achieve more and more. More money, more social life, more status. You have to climb the steps of life at a forced pace and comply, at every moment, with what society expects of you. They have managed to convince us that if we do not hurry, juggling the different roles of a life that we often do not like, we are doing it wrong.

Whose life are you living?

And, in reality, all these objectives would be very laudable if they arose from our own conviction. It is wonderful to study, know and nourish yourself. It is fantastic to have financial freedom, enjoy leisure with friends and share a relationship with another person. But When it comes to impositions and not desires, satisfaction becomes a suffocating pressure.

Why do you have to study a degree at 18 out of obligation, and not at 25 out of a genuine desire to learn about the subject?. Why should you share your time with people who do not contribute or fulfill you, just because you have to have contacts? Do you really think it’s healthy to stay with someone who harms you and doesn’t value you because society says that, at your age, you have to have a partner? What will they say is a good reason to have children without being prepared?

We are so immersed in following a life plan designed by others, that we do not allow ourselves to reflect or connect with ourselves. We are in such a hurry to fulfill the script and expectations, that we forget to enjoy life.. The feeling of failure that invades us when it seems that we are late, that we are not doing the right thing, can be truly paralyzing.

Take life easy

Therefore, if you feel that routine is overwhelming you, that worry and anxiety have become part of you, rest for a moment. You are not late anywhere, because there is no place to be. Your life is solely and exclusively yours, and it is you who must decide how to live it. There is no certain age for everything, the train doesn’t just pass once. Each of us has our own path and we must give ourselves the right to live it individually.

Don’t be in a hurry to decide who you want to be or how you want to live. Allow yourself to discover your gifts, your desires and what makes you happy. Stop putting your mental energy on the future, on the should, on the next goal you have to achieve, and focus on the now.. Enjoy your body, your health, your own company and that of your loved ones. Connect with your environment, walk through nature, spend time on that activity that you find so rewarding.

Enjoy the road

We don’t know when our last day of life will be. Thus We must make every day count and have meaning. Would you like to spend your last moments overwhelmed, worried, feeling insufficient? Value yourself and remember your right to live fully, and according to your own parameters.

Don’t worry if you still don’t have a job, if you haven’t been promoted yet. Don’t suffer for not having found love yet, for not having plans every night. Take life easy. Everything will come, don’t let the pressure make you settle for what doesn’t make you happy. Don’t let your mind believe that your value depends on how much you fit the mold that others have imposed on you.

Set goals, but let them come from you. Work for them, strive to get them. But Don’t get obsessed with the goal and enjoy the journey.

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