Schopenhauer said that “solitude is the heritage of all extraordinary souls.” When you accept that living involves difficulties and still choose to bet on life, you become stronger, lucid and detached, even if you are more tired. Said in lower and upper case letters: when living is hard, let's bet on Life. Let's do it with grace and giving thanks. Let's be kind and seek to grow. We would rather create than believe. In the intimate and religious sense, beliefs are better without public address systems, because what is essential is cared for internally.
And in practical life, act instead of waiting. Be faithful to your values without expecting rewards, and thus avoid falling into deception. Do things out of conviction without expecting results and don't let yourself be discouraged by those interested, sellers of smoke, toxins, climbers, cheap tourists from the market of ideas, Instagram philosophers of cappuccino and foam.
In The Dream of Africa, Javier Reverte told us that “the religion of the Masai… does not promise men anything other than loneliness. There is no paradise in Maasai mythology… the only destiny this tribe believes in is that man lives and dies in solitude.” The story of those who fell in the Andes exemplifies this concept. In addition to making the decision to feed on the bodies of the deceased with whom they had traveled and who were their friends, they heard on a radio that the Chilean air forces were abandoning the search after ten days. That day he exposed the cruel truth: no one would come to rescue them and their survival would depend on their own efforts and means.
It is a perfect metaphor for life: the master's eye fattens the horse. That is to say, if you want to be well served, make your own bed and, likewise, assume the consequences of your choices. Many things depend on yourself. While there are times to delegate to others, to ask for help, to do things collectively, in essential matters, we are alone and the choice is irrevocably ours. Let's get out of the Valley of Excuses. Life is sometimes unfair, but it can be very beautiful.
