quarta-feira, novembro 08, 2023

“Love is space and time made sensitive to the heart.” (Marcel Proust)

“Love is space and time made sensitive to the heart.” (Marcel Proust) A popular saying says that in a full heart there is room for everything, but in an empty heart there is room for nothing. José Saramago wrote that, “physically, we inhabit a space, but, sentimentally, we are inhabited by a memory.” There comes a time when we discover that there is a new way of living, which is to live today, giving the most of ourselves and expecting the most from life. Just for today we will be allowed to dream and imagine our life the way we want it to be. Just for today we decided to be happy because we know that when tomorrow comes, we will have the opportunity to decide all of this again. Just for today, we decided to change and that makes all the difference! “We have to discover security within ourselves. During the short time of our lives we need to find our own criteria for relating to the existence in which we participate so transiently.” (Boris Pasternak) The day we realize that there is no more room for dreams and that hope is something far away, life will no longer have meaning! If so, then let's not waste time, let's make the most of our time! As Albert Einstein wrote, “Time and space are ways in which we think, not conditions in which we live.” In our personal lives we tend to simplify what we can and, we try to be part of the world we live in, we are aware of our human condition and the many scourges happening around the world. But we like to live and we need to like living. As Tolentino de Mendonça wrote, during vacations "we sit by the sea looking for the open, a sea breeze, the freshness of the water, a different breath. We are not made for air conditioning or for life among walls. Our soul needs wide spaces, vastness and to dream.”

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