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 with lowercase and uppercase letters: When life is hard, we bet on Life. Let's do it with grace and giving thanks. Let's be kind and seek to grow. We prefer to create than to believe. In the intimate and religious, beliefs are better without loudspeakers, because the essential is taken care of inside.
And in practical life, act instead of waiting. Be true to your values without expecting rewards, and thus avoid falling into deception. Do things out of conviction without waiting for results and don't be discouraged by the interested, the smoke sellers, the toxics, the climbers, the charm market tourists of the ideas, the cappuccino and foam Instagram philosophers.
In El sueño de África, Javier Reverte explained to us that "the religion of the Maasai... does not promise men anything other than solitude. 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 dead with whom they had traveled and who were their friends, they heard on a radio that the Chilean Air Force was 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 makes the horse fat. In other words, if you want to be well served, make your own bed and, likewise, assume the consequences of your choices. Many things depend on oneself. Although 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.
We leave the Valley of the Excuses. Life is sometimes unfair, but it can be very beautiful.
