Tag: philosophy

Man is never given the chance to do everything he wants, but equally, he is never denied the chance to act at all. Everything is always between these two extremes and, most of the time, one can do more than one supposes. One cannot, however, act in the past or move forward in time, and such impossibilities often embarrass. Such impossibilities, in fact, can only constrain, and until one learns to despise them, one doesn’t value the much, even the surplus, that one can take advantage of.

Fortunately, worries and small mistakes, even if they are plentiful, pass without any effort being made. They simply pass, and with an ease that sometimes seems miraculous. Then, mind refreshed, spirit restored, there is a new opportunity to return to the principal. The hardest thing is often to maintain this certainty with patience: there are times when the view darkens, and all one can do is hold back and wait.

The search for identity involves, first of all, recognizing the stable element in the most disparate and distant manifestations, i.e., recognizing the cohesion that emerges during the development of the personality. Sometimes the task is not easy, and this cohesion is not identified in actions, but in a more or less manifest intention, without which what is experienced becomes confused. Identity exists, however, because the individual does not fall apart or become someone else—and finding it is always revealing.

When one really matures, as time subtracts, as responsibility increases and the past acquires weight and volume, one also acquires the ability to detach oneself from accessories until, finally, life becomes simpler. This process, however, depends on the ability to understand and see oneself proportionally in the panorama of existence, something that naturally results in a fair sizing up, without exaggeration or too much modesty, of what one can and should do.