Dense fog in a cold morning.
Vast and desolated fields with fertile soil, waiting impatiently for the spring to arrive.
Tags: #Life #Productivity
Once and again, when something feels off, daily routines are here to save me.
You might say I am a man of routines, and you'd be right.
I am seriously considering to start practising Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) in the Spring next year. I found a good school relatively close by.
Daily schedule need to be re-adjusted. It won't be cheap, and life will get substantially more expensive for me next year—beyond inflation, but that also contributes.
Though, I first need to figure out what to do with my sore knees —a long-standing issue. I can get used to a mild pain, the problem is that when I part take in intense physical activities, even walking is painful.
Still, I think I'm going to—at least—try it.
Life has been unusually intense this week.
I had an important meeting at work yesterday. I even have a draft post about “the situation” which got resolved in that meeting, but I decided not to publish it, and now it is gone (more about that later).
There are situations which require action, others require patience—waiting patiently as you observe things unfold.
Knowing when to act and when to wait is one of the most difficult life skills.
Acting when a situation requires patience is a mistake. So it is to keep patiently waiting when action is needed.
If you overthink it, you are stuck forever. If you act mindlessly—or prematurely—you might end up in the wrong place.
When you look back at your life, often the biggest mistakes taught you the greatest lessons. Should we still call them mistakes?
Therefore, if you go about your life learning the lesson from every mistake you make, shall we avoid calling those mistakes, and say life lessons instead?
Let me revise some claims made in yesterday's post.
There, I wrote: “Take love, for instance. In that domain, and not surprisingly, English is way more limited than Spanish.”
That is not an absolute truth. There are scenarios where English is more accurate. The best example is: falling in love.
I'm lucky to have valuable old friends in my life. Interestingly, most of my friends are old.
'Old' is one of those words full of subjectivity. But let's say I have close friends that are closer to the age of my parents than mine. One of them is an octogenarian artist living in Amsterdam. When I was in high-school, I used to hang out with the faculty staff more than with my classmates—excluding my two closest friends. My first girlfriend was the older sister of a classmate in secondary school.
It is weird, I know.
I always thought I was too boring for the people of my age—and, honestly, the other way around too.
This is neither good nor bad, it is what it is.
Although it was sometimes inconvenient to be surrounded with people from another generation, I think I gained interesting perspectives on life. Also, it was a relief to have people to talk with—it helped me to cope with the fact that people from my age considered me a weirdo.
It is exciting when I find someone within my age range with whom I can have meaningful and deep conversations. But I also fear it won't last long, so, I tend to feel extremely grateful and be equally cautious.
Important and popular aren't the same.
Important is often overlooked; popular, extolled.
Taking care of what really matters isn't nearly as popular as spending time on the mundane, it is the least walked path.
Importance is silent work; popularity is noisy verbiage.
Those seeking truth look everywhere, from the open blue skies above to the tiny little insects below. Inwards and outwards. They close their eyes and taste the salty breeze of the ocean.
Those chasing appearances see without looking. Grandiosity gets noticed, though. Neither here, nor there; restlessness is everywhere.
Important is a gut-wrenching doubt, an intimidating yet fulfilling endeavour; popular is a deceiving certainty, an impersonal and ephemeral pastime.
Important are all the intimate questions without known answers. Popular are generic answers for unknown questions.