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Return home
When you live in countries other than your homeland, you try a sort of inner tear at the height of the navel … You feel like a tree with roots planted in the ground that do not allow you to move and the branches that stretch towards the sky. It is a strange feeling, when you leave there is a vacuum compensated by the enthusiasm and the discovery… when you come back you feel confused … as if you had lost some memory because you do not recognize yourself in what is fixed in the mind … the affects are unchanged but some behaviors are incomprehensible… the eyes are different even if the heart is the same.
The Volunteer
To be a volunteer is complex. The intentions behind this impetus towards the others are usually positive but how much do you make that choice totally for the others and not for yourself too? Perhaps to fill empty voids, guilty feelings, to feel desirable, esteemed. It’s so hard to be in front of a person and do not judge him/her. We want to give the needy what makes us happy because we believe the same necessities and desires we have, will satisfy the others … but that is not the case. Being a volunteer you get to the purest form of love, the one out of judgments and expectations, you support the other without trying to influence him/her and no wonder if there is nothing in return, you do not even think of that possibility.
Ocean and Wind
It takes the right wind to set the sails … in the western world we are used to dictate the times, planning holidays, meetings, the length of a coffee break with friends … the control mania expands and gets hold of feelings, of the present and of the future … sailing teaches this … to let it go to the wills of the ocean, enormously bigger than us. We have no power over the ocean, we just have to wait for the propitious combination of winds and tides … we have to be ready and wait.
The Mistake
“You ask, to the utmost they say no” … “Shoot, at the worst, you miss the basket …” More or less the same concept expressed in a concise and direct manner by two different men but very passionate in their work. A university professor, a basketball coach. Practically, do not be afraid, dare, the mistake is part of growth … without risk, without getting into the game, there is no shadow of doubt, a key element for thinking and wisdom.
