End of Summer…

 

Ph by Ashley Frangie

“The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others.”

We all tend to believe that the things that happen to us, only happen to us; that when people hurt us, they do it intentionally, that everything that surrounds us is for the sake of making our life the way it is. We never stop to think that maybe, just maybe, what people do to us is the reflection of their own personal problems, their own unhappiness, their own despairs. I think that the greatest virtue we could all have is compassion, we never know what that other person was going through when they did the things that hurt us; or maybe we look for perfection in everything when mistakes happen around the corner everyday. We have to be compassionate about others, about their problems, about their life. I believe it is the greatest form of love. Compassion shows our human side, our belief that we all ride together in this enormous air balloon called world that will eventually break; even though we all have different problems and circumstances in life, we all suffer, so believe in the greater power of empathy and don’t be careless or blind to what others might be going through. How are you feeling this Friday? Today, I am feeling remorse for the way I am sometimes with the people that care about me, for the times compassion wasn’t in my heart and I forgot that people might have bigger problems that I.

Redo in life?

 

Ph. by Alfonso Ramza

What would you do if you were given a redo in life? Would you have a chosen a different path? Would have studied something else? Would you have given up your career for love, family? Would you have fought for your dreams in a different way? Would you have given your heart later in your life? Would you have laughed more, travel more, loved more? What would you do if you got to do it all over again?… I think these are questions we ask ourselves all the time, what would’ve happen if I have done things differently? As I’ve told you before, I do not have regrets. I’ve made mistakes and I haven’t finished making them as I want to believe my life has a long way to go; but, I think that the only thing I would have changed is that I would’ve looked at things from a different perspective.

Every situation in life has different sides that help us understand why things happen the way they do, we get so immerse in our problems that we don’t realice that sometimes it is easier to solve them by looking at them from another point of view. I think my life would’ve been less complicated if I have opened my mind. Seeing things from a vantage point will help us understand others as well, we judge people so hard until life puts us on their shoes; and this is when we realice that compassion IS the other side of the situation. Try to feel what others feel and look at them through their eyes, see the good side every person has to offer, be kind-hearted, because when you do, they will stay with you forever. How are you feeling this Friday? Today, I am feeling terrible for those times I judged without seeing things from another perspective.

¿Qué harían si les dijeran que pueden rehacer su vida? ¿Escogerían una vida distinta? ¿Escogerían otra carrera? ¿Amarían más tarde o más temprano en sus vidas? ¿Dejarían su carrera por amor? ¿Qué es lo que harían diferente? Yo creo que estas son preguntas que con frecuencia nos hacemos, el “qué hubiera pasado” es un sentimiento muy presente en nuestra vida, y esto es porque siempre creemos que pudimos haberlo hecho mejor. O al menos eso creo yo. Como les he dicho antes, yo creo que no cambiaría nada, lo único que haría diferente es que me hubiera gustado haber visto las cosas desde otra perspectiva. Todos los problemas a los que la vida nos ha enfrenado han tenido distintos lados, distintas maneras de resolverse, sin embargo muchas veces no nos damos cuenta y nos ahogamos en una vaso de agua tratando de resolverlos de la manera más complicada, complicándonos más la vida. Yo creo que si tratamos de abrir nuestra mente y ver que cada historia, cada situación, cada vida tiene dos o más lados, podríamos ser más felices y dejarnos de preguntar el “qué hubiera pasado,” porque muchas veces esa pregunta nos hace dudar de nuestra felicidad actual y de nuestra vida misma.

Al tratar de abrir nuestra mente y ver las cosas desde otra perspectiva, también nos va a ayudar a entender más a los demás. La mayoría de las veces juzgamos a las personas sin ponernos en sus zapatos, hasta que la vida nos pone en la misma situación y entonces es cuando entendemos por lo que pasaron. Yo creo que la vida tiene la capacidad de hacernos ver que el ser compasivos y bondadosos es la forma más fácil de encontrar la felicidad con las personas que nos rodean. Cuando amamos sin obstáculos las personas abren su corazón a la vida, al amor y a la felicidad. ¿Cómo se sienten este viernes? Yo me siento terrible por las veces que juzgué sin ver las cosas de otra manera.