I hope this is making sense to you but if it doesn’t, let me explain.<\/p>\n
Human beings come to this world as small helpless creatures emerging from the safest place imaginable \u2013 a mother’s womb.<\/p>\n
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Imagina que nos arrebatan ese espacio suave, c\u00e1lido y autosuficiente que habitamos durante nueve meses enteros.<\/p>\n
All of a sudden we’re pulled out of it into the cold and sterile hospital building with weird noises and blinding lights.<\/p>\n
When you think about it that way it definitely explains why babies cry when they’re being born, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
But did you ever think about how weird and almost fallible it is that you don’t remember that moment at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n The fact that you don’t remember the part of su<\/em> vida que ya has experimentado?<\/p>\n Personalmente, me parece raro que empecemos a recordar nuestra vida a partir de un punto en el tiempo y el resto sea un caos nebuloso.<\/p>\n It’s even weirder that almost all of our memories are an altered reality, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n Esta introducci\u00f3n se hizo para decir esto: Los beb\u00e9s son criaturas conscientes sin conocimiento de s\u00ed mismas.<\/p>\n Est\u00e1n empapados de realidad sin reglas. Tabula rasa. S\u00f3lo m\u00e1s tarde en la vida se les imponen reglas.<\/p>\n Relacionado: 60 preguntas y acertijos sobre qui\u00e9n soy que aumentar\u00e1n tu capacidad intelectual<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Eso me hace preguntarme qu\u00e9 somos sin las reglas del mundo exterior, ya que partimos de un mundo interior.<\/p>\n \u00bfQu\u00e9 le ocurre a la conciencia humana cuando lo externo y lo interno chocan? \u00bfEs eso lo que llamamos vida<\/em>?<\/p>\n Si es as\u00ed, \u00bfcu\u00e1l es el sentido de la vida?<\/p>\n I’m no philosopher nor theologist but I am a curious human being and I feel like that gives me the right to speak on this matter.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve dabbled a little in religion, different philosophies like existentialism, even nihilism, and anything else that grabbed my attention but none of them gave me an answer I was looking for.<\/p>\n Todo ello me llev\u00f3 a la siguiente conclusi\u00f3n: There’s no universal answer because experiences are individual.<\/strong><\/p>\n The purpose of life is individual. Finding meaning is closely attached to what we think meaningful life is. For one person it’s their loved ones, for another it’s attaining wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s not surprising we so often don’t understand each other when life’s meaning depends on the circumstances of our lives that we’re living in the physical world but that we\u2019re processing internally as no one can really see what’s inside another person’s mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n Relacionado: Pasi\u00f3n vs. Prop\u00f3sito: por qu\u00e9 se necesitan ambos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In words of Ana\u00efs Nin: \u201cThere is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ahora mismo hay 7.800 millones de personas en la Tierra, lo que significa 7.800 millones de experiencias diferentes.<\/p>\n The fact that we’re now more than ever exposed to seeing the lives of others doesn’t help with the confusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re constantly bombarded with other people’s thoughts, habits, point of view, and what not and it’s not unusual to be confused about your own purpose or even mistake it for someone else’s.<\/p>\n In fact, seeing someone else doing supposedly well in life often makes us feel like we’re falling behind and that’s just what makes things worse.<\/p>\n Do I even need to mention how that’s usually done through painfully staged content on social media?<\/p>\n Life in the 21st century is hectic. It’s much more hectic than it was in centuries gone by and I’m afraid to think what will happen to future generations.<\/p>\n There’s an obsession for meaning and alarming meaninglessness at the same time, and that’s what leads me to the next question:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Albert Camus<\/p>\n En mi humilde opini\u00f3n, suele ser as\u00ed.<\/p>\n If anything, we know we’re, generally speaking \u2013 limited.<\/p>\n We’re not physically equipped to survive on our own like most animals and we’re not smart enough or either spiritually or technologically advanced enough to grasp that something we’re always striving for, that something beyond the reason and senses.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lo \u00fanico que tenemos es la raz\u00f3n y la fe. Incluso las personas no religiosas necesitan tener fe para levantarse por la ma\u00f1ana y seguir adelante con su d\u00eda.<\/p>\n It doesn’t have to be faith in the supernatural because it’s enough just to make plans for the future. That in itself is a sign of faith.<\/p>\n Sabiendo esto, buscar activamente el prop\u00f3sito con s\u00f3lo pensando<\/em> about it seems futile. It usually doesn’t lead to a better life but instead causes frustration.<\/p>\n It heightens pressure and makes you go into panic mode thinking you HAVE to do this and that in order to live a life worth living by someone else’s standards.<\/p>\n A riesgo de sonar demasiado metaf\u00edsico, tengo que decir que listening to your inner being without obsessively thinking about life’s meaning<\/strong> es mucho m\u00e1s productivo.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just about living life, experiencing trial and error, and pushing yourselves outside of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n There’s no magical thought that will change your life because life is lived by taking action and living in the present moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAccepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: It should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Albert Camus<\/p>\n When you feel like you’re lost in life just think of this:<\/p>\n We’re four-limbed creatures that live on a giant ball filled with water that’s spinning in the middle of something we call espacio<\/em>, where there’s not enough air to breathe or to scatter light, and sound can’t be transmitted yet it’s not empty.<\/p>\n It’s pretty bizarre.<\/p>\n What’s even more bizarre is the fact that we care about so many things while virtually knowing nothing about our own existence.<\/p>\n Yes, we have come a long way, science gives us explanations of how things work but we still don’t know why we exist in the first place.<\/p>\n There’s no manual for life. Everybody is \u2013 at the core \u2013 on their own.<\/p>\n Nobody knows what they’re doing.<\/strong><\/p>\n I remember when it dawned on me that adults aren’t as knowledgeable about life as I thought they were.<\/p>\n In fact, it seems to me they’re faking adultness and just sort of winging it through life while pretending they have everything under control.<\/p>\n All of this can be terrifying or comforting, that’s up to you.<\/p>\n Creo que la vida humana es excepcional independientemente de su significado.<\/p>\n The world made us believe that there’s no point in life if we’re not doing something BIG, something that will change the world and people’s lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ese algo es, por ejemplo, hacerse rico o famoso o alcanzar la iluminaci\u00f3n espiritual.<\/p>\n La realidad es que la gente rara vez hace algo grande seg\u00fan las normas sociales.<\/p>\n Don’t get carried away with the ideas that you have to achieve something like that to fulfill your life purpose, because you don’t.<\/p>\n If stuff like that really was the meaning of life, 90% of people would be severely depressed. It’s okay to strive to achieve your goals but you shouldn’t mistake them for the meaning of life.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Viktor Frankl<\/p>\n Life is a journey without a map. We’re blind to what’s in front of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n Para atravesarlo con \u00e9xito, tenemos que aceptar las cosas malas del camino.<\/p>\n Las polaridades forman parte de la vida. Desde el principio de los tiempos, la gente ha hablado del bien y del mal, intentando describir todos los matices de la vida y extraer el significado de las cosas que les rodean.<\/p>\n When something bad happens we’re naturally inclined to start reexamining our life’s meaning.<\/p>\n Por ejemplo, muertes de nuestros seres queridos, enfermedades, rupturas y otras cosas que representan una p\u00e9rdida de algo valioso que daba sentido a nuestra vida.<\/p>\n These things trigger our sense of self and our purpose in life. We’re faced with the loss of meaning and it’s hard to find it while we’re spiraling down the whirl of despair and loss.<\/p>\n La lucha nos hace buscar respuestas y a menudo buscamos soluciones en un prop\u00f3sito superior. Sin embargo, a veces ese prop\u00f3sito superior no es m\u00e1s que seguir viviendo d\u00eda a d\u00eda.<\/p>\n Things will change, they will improve, you’ll look back at them and know it all had to happen.<\/p>\n \u201cUniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Raheel Farooq<\/p>\n As I said earlier, it’s easy to fall into the trap of comparing your life to the lives of other people when we’re constantly looking at their lives.<\/p>\n Parece que algunos lo tienen f\u00e1cil, mientras que otros lo tienen dif\u00edcil.<\/p>\n La clave est\u00e1 en comprender que si algo tiene un aspecto determinado<\/em>, it doesn’t mean it really is. Everyone is fighting their own battle.<\/p>\n Las personas m\u00e1s divertidas del mundo est\u00e1n deprimidas, las m\u00e1s pobres del mundo son las m\u00e1s felices.<\/p>\n Don’t compare yourself to others because your inner world isn’t the same as everyone else’s. Your personal journey is different to everyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n Comparar es como decir I’m never enough<\/em> to ourselves. That’s simply not true. You’re enough as you are. You just need to accept that you’re not perfect and know that no one else is perfect either.<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s great to take inspiration from other people and look for guidance in things they do and say, but the same things that work for them don’t have to work for you.<\/p>\n Don’t listen to others when it comes to decisions in your own life. They don’t know what you know about yourself.<\/p>\n People underestimate and overestimate each other all the time. They don’t have your experience, they don’t know what you’re capable of or what your purpose is.<\/p>\n El prop\u00f3sito es profundamente \u00edntimo y personal.<\/strong><\/p>\n If someone disagrees with the way you live your life \u2013 know that it has nothing to do with you as long you’re not endangering the lives of others.<\/p>\n Whatever they say is their opinion and nothing else. An opinion is not a fact. It’s just perspective and not the truth.<\/p>\n Letting go of the need for approval is hard for many people because that’s how we learn to gane<\/em> amor aunque digan que el amor debe ser incondicional.<\/p>\n There’s no objective rating scale that allows another person to judge you. Nobody knows what you’ve been through.<\/p>\n Sin embargo, seguimos midiendo nuestra autoestima en funci\u00f3n de la aprobaci\u00f3n de los dem\u00e1s y eso nos hace profundamente infelices.<\/p>\n We can’t be happy if there’s always something unattainable we long for. We can’t be happy if we’re living for other people. Living life free of the need for approval is la clave del bienestar<\/a>.<\/p>\n We don’t have to fulfill anyone’s expectations but our own. The moment we stop thinking about what others will think and start listening to what we want \u2013 things start to change.<\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t let the careless word of others influence your whole mood. Don’t let it stress you.<\/p>\n Remember that you don’t have to explain yourself to others either. If they get you, that’s great, if they don’t, and you don’t feel comfortable explaining \u2013 just don’t do it.<\/p>\n \u201cPractice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear, and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s<\/p>\n Another reason why you shouldn’t listen to others is because you already have your inner guide. You have intuition.<\/p>\n Aprov\u00e9chalo.<\/p>\n To answer the question \u201c\u00bfqu\u00e9 sentido tiene la vida?<\/em>\u201d one must be connected to one\u2019s inner being, which is revealed through intuition.<\/p>\n La intuici\u00f3n es lo que finalmente nos conducir\u00e1 a nuestro prop\u00f3sito vital y despertar espiritual<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n That’s why it’s so important. It’s what makes us authentic.<\/p>\n![\"madre](\"https:\/\/herway.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/happy-young-mother.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nRelax, nobody knows what the heck they’re doing either<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nBrace yourself: Life’s full of ups and downs<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nDon’t compare your life journey to others<\/span><\/h2>\n
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