Life Juggling and The Vision
Content I found interesting:
This week I don´t have any special content for you so I will share the music that has been following me for the last month:
This album from Radiohead. I can´t even begin to describe how it makes me feel, it is so incredibly made.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ix8vWvvSp2Yo7rKMiWpkg?si=K44d3if2SX6BIDMK67IJKA
This song from MARO.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ssvYg2hOjko0iToBwkZW5?si=4f055a55988f4141
Thoughts and realizations:
This week, in a conversation with a friend, we found a really good metaphor that represents life in society. Here it is.
We are all jugglers trying to juggle as many balls as we possibly can.
Each ball represents a part of our life, like our family, friends, work, sleep, exercise, meditation, nutrition, etc. And, each time you drop a ball, it means that you left one of these aspects of your life fall behind.
Our problem is that we try to juggle as many balls as we can and don’t focus on juggling them with grace. Because of this, sometimes we drop really important balls that compromise our wellbeing.
When we drop any ball, our life gets messy, and we quickly pick it up only to drop another one.
We live between dropping balls and picking them back up.
Living is the constant choice between piking a ball or leaving it on the floor.
And, just like a real juggler, you should focus first on the important balls.
Start by picking two of them until you juggle them perfectly.
When you are comfortable, add another one.
And like this, one part of your life at a time you will be able to reach an equilibrium.
If you drop all the balls, don’t worry, you can always start again with two.
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It’s normal so feel like you are not enough, it’s normal to feel constant dissatisfaction.
I just finished a one-month challenge where I did an extreme routine, that squeezed all habits I always wanted to have every day.
After this challenge, I have never been fitter and I have never had so much energy and will power.
I feel great, but the hole inside of me has not yet disappeared, I still feel this chronic dissatisfaction.
It never wet away, the hole was there even in my best moments of my life.
Even when I don’t feel it, I know it’s there.
But I know it has a purpose, I know that this hole is the only reason I do anything in life.
I know that everything I do is to fill it, and that nothing will ever be enough.
This hole is what drives us in this society.
If you want to get rid of the hole, you have to be okay about being no one, about being completely detached from worldly feelings, achievements, and possessions.
If you are prepared to leave everything you have, the hole will disappear.
Do you want to leave everything? I guess not.
So, be okay with dissatisfaction, embrace it, live with it.
Accept that if you want to have a role in society you will never be fully fulfilled.
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Most of us don’t follow their dreams, we choose the closest thing to them that is financially sustainable and socially acceptable.
Including me, I don’t do what I love because I am afraid to be a failure in the eyes of my family.
Don’t get me wrong, I like what I do, but its not the complete package. I want to create more freely, I want to follow a purely artistic path, without strings attached to anything, and that’s what scares me.
I have a vision I want to follow.
I know what I want to do, I know how to get there, but I am still afraid to follow it.
At least I know what I love to do, that’s a good beginning.
And this is the start of the vision. This newsletter, the book, and the music are just the start of something great, the project of my life.
I can´t explain to you the nature of this project or what I have in mind, because it is bigger than me.
If you understand it, if you have a sense of what’s in my mind, that means that this is also the project of your life.
So, I invite you to follow your passion, work on your project and maybe, someday, both our projects will merge into one.