Tag: philosophy

The certainty while living in this world is having to confront disturbances over and over again, no matter how much one isolates oneself or avoids confrontation. Disturbances will come as the day goes by, whether in big or small ways, and all it takes is a little involvement to notice them. That is why it is good to take advantage of those moments when the act undertaken flows as lightly as possible, without obstacles; soon, they will appear.

Remembering that big changes do not happen every day is the most obvious and prudent advice for someone who has become accustomed to acting by betting on the improbable. Because, in short, there is no reason for predictable failure to turn into frustration. It is necessary to act for the sake of acting, and let whatever has to happen happen. In this way, one protects oneself against the uncontrollable and makes the most of what can surely be made.

Life is always more interesting when one takes risks and lives in the knowledge that to act is to risk. But sometimes it happens that there is so much bad luck that the successive setbacks accumulate in an unbearably disappointing way, and soon one loses that minimum of hope without which one cannot take a risk. Such discouragement is the death of the spirit, and it is undoubtedly much more profitable to spend one’s life as a deluded madman than to succumb to it; for the madman at least acts, and from his action something good can be drawn.

There seems to be a series of necessary decisions in each individual life, which take place in the biography either for good or ill. In the first case, everything seems to flow so naturally that the decision sometimes goes unnoticed, as if it were an inevitable outcome and not really a decision. However, if neglected, life goes on carrying a pending issue, which gets progressively worse, gradually concentrating more and more tensions, until there comes a moment when it is impossible to hide it, impossible to bear it, and the whole of life seems to converge and press for that previous decision to be made, which now takes effect with a delay, and brings with it, along with great relief, the feeling that a lot of time has been lost.