What must return, will return, in other forms and at another time

In the end, there comes a moment in life when one learns to let go of certain dreams, certain friendships and some loves that at a given moment meant everything. However, we do so knowing that Whatever has to come back will do so in other ways, with other faces, with other, more sincere smiles. and with new winds capable of restarting us once, ten and a thousand times.

It is curious how The world of children’s literature sometimes offers us wonderful lessons for personal growth. which would be worth taking more into account. We have an example of this in “The Wizard of Oz” by Lyman Frank Baum. In this unforgettable piece of literature we meet a young girl who, swept away by a powerful tornado, arrives in a strange and unknown world.

Since Dorothy arrives in the world of Oz, she only wants one thing: to return home. Little by little, her initial fear of this new and terrifying situation diminishes thanks to her new and unique friends, her silver shoes and a very specific goal: to reach the Wizard of OZ to ask him to return her to her home. To achieve this, she just has to follow the yellow brick road.

Thus, and at the end of so many adventures and misadventures, the young protagonist discovers that in reality, The power to return home had always been there, within him.. However, this fascinating journey turns out to be key to awakening one by one their personal strengths and that unparalleled courage that we also guard in some corner of our being.

Getting lost, getting away from our usual paths is not as bad as it may seem at first. Letting go of certain things, certain people, projects, dreams and ambitions is not fatal either. Because In the end, what counts are the steps and everything learned. Only in this way will we allow whatever has to come to return in due time, while we advance along that yellow brick road that is personal growth – or even that “golden path” that Buddhism tells us about.

Whatever has to come back will do so in its time and place, in the meantime we will move forward

Andrea is an engineer. It has created a sophisticated and original pet transport that adapts to the back seats of cars, guaranteeing the total safety and comfort of pets. Every time he presents his project to a businessman he explains that, with his proposal, the lives of countless animals that now die in traffic accidents because they are not protected would be saved.

So far only one person has been interested in Andrea’s idea, but After that first “yes”, the company has backed out, justifying that it did not see it as profitable.. However, our protagonist has not collapsed. She does not give up nor has she allowed any of her illusions to crumble. Andrea understands that she must continue working, she has told herself that perhaps she should innovate in other cheaper, but equally safe materials, perhaps she should open up to other markets, present her idea abroad…

You know that opportunities will return, but they will do so in their time and place. He has full confidence that more people and organizations will come attracted by his project and therefore, he does not leave a single day to invest time, ideas and efforts in his purpose. The most likely thing is that this young engineer will achieve success sooner or later because as the philosopher José Antonio Marina tells us, talent is intelligence in action, and although sometimes we believe that all is lost, the yellow brick road is always there … In front of us.

Losing, receiving a negative response, failing, tripping over the same stone three times or even falling in love with the least suitable person in the world, has its purpose: to take on learning. Even more, all these bumps in the road are equivalent to having to forcibly improve our vital purposesbecause after the “tornado” comes calm and the obligation to weave a personal goal that is much more beautiful, more dignified, stronger and, above all, resistant.

Sooner or later opportunities will return and when they do, we will be perfectly prepared.

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Everything that comes back, does it differently

The stars are so far away from us that even the light from the closest ones takes years to reach our small planet. However, sometimes we don’t remember, and There are nights when we delight in pointing them out one by one without remembering that perhaps many of them no longer exist.which exploded long ago, disintegrating in the cosmic void in the form of stardust.

Not everything that comes back to us is authentic, we know, like the light of those same stars. Sometimes we lose a love and hope that a better one will come back, one more passionate, more luminous and romantic. Other times, we miss an opportunity and hope to have the same luck again as soon as possible, in the blink of an eye. However, none of this happens as quickly as we hope or in the way we dream.

You have to be patient and understand that things come back, there is no doubt, but they always do it in a different way.: with a calmer and more enriching love, perhaps. With a less shiny opportunity, but perhaps more profitable.

It’s just about being receptive and ultimately wearing those same silver shoes that Dorothy wore in the Wizard of Oz. Because in reality, although the cinema wanted us to see that they were red, the author of the book Lyman Frank Baum imagined them silver for a very specific reason.

Dorothy’s shoes represented the “silver thread” of spiritual growth. It is the link through which we acquire a clearer vision of things and our own identity to achieve wisdom. To understand that life is a journey in which we gain and lose things, where nothing is permanent and where Every thing that reaches us is an exclusive gift that we can take advantage of.

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