"Imagine what would happen if everyone knew what only you know about yourself." (José Luis Peixoto)

"Imagine what would happen if everyone knew what only you know about yourself." (José Luis Peixoto) Age has brought us the clarity that what really matters is living without shackles, without fears, without apprehensions. We live in times when we must doubt everything, and the new generations, and not only them, navigate AI (Artificial Intelligence) between what demagogues say who try to deceive them and the idea that everything is relative and potentially false. In fact, this can lead us all to the bottom, or we act before we drown in a certainty of complete ignorance!!!! But we don't forget that we have memory, "that we are too old to criticize, but young enough to act." (Johann Goethe) In reality, we all interpret our days through the lens that we created and that was created for all of us, the one that was taught to us from a young age and that we have been polishing throughout all these years. We learned that such a thing was right and another wrong, and so we move forward, teaching something similar to whoever appeared before us, judging without realizing it all the time, forgetting, at times, that "we do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are." (Jean-Paul Sartre) There is a phrase that has become somewhat classic, "there is never a second chance to make a good first impression" (often attributed to H. Jackson Brown Jr. or Tom Peters) highlights the crucial importance of the first few seconds in an encounter, whether personal or professional. In reality, the initial image formed is hardly altered, becoming lasting. All this comes to mind, what do I see every morning when I look in my mirror? Well…I must say that besides the Wrinkles! I see someone who isn't afraid to eat alone, go out alone, take care of everything alone, and who isn't afraid of losing friends anymore, because if they lost them, it's because they weren't friends! You've already faced silence, sat with solitude, and learned to value yourself every day! That's why you're so hard to bring down, because you're someone who has transformed pain into power, wounds into wisdom! You're sustained by enormous self-love! Whenever you fall, you get up on your own! Having company is a matter of choice, not necessity! And you've discovered that the most important thing is to be at peace, and that is perhaps the greatest degree of happiness!! That's who I am, and with great pleasure! No, we don't have the right to let ourselves be defeated. There's always that famous Nietzsche quote: "If you gaze into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you."