Loneliness is not misfortune. It is the opportunity to listen to ourselves, to get into what moves us, we love and we hope. It is a revelation of being.
However, in a society in which we impose prices and tangibility to everything, we have forgotten our raison d'etre and to be in this three-dimensional plane, in this reality. We love noise, shopping, stereotypes of happiness, beauty and enjoyment. We sink into emptiness and nonsense.
We assume that consumerism is the panacea to all our real or imagined ills, that the feast of the senses is synonymous with happiness and that a time of inconsequential talks is what should conform our daily life. We forget our essence, we copy models of what we should be, our life, education and family. In the mask of "must be" we let our day adía.
How long have you not listened to a soliloquy, how much did you stop admiring the stars and when you looked in the mirror did you forget to feel grateful? You run for imposed goals, for what others said was success, you work to pretend that you are not and that you really do not care. And in that resounding and wild race you forgot not only your parents, beliefs and gifts. You forgot about yourself.
You look for what strangers drew as success, comfort or plausible. What others pointed out that it should be. Then, deceived, you sank into the jaws of consumerism, of fierce competition with everyone, you saw the universe not as the home you already own, but as a place to conquer, an immense territory that you must invade every second.
In those imposed goals, paradoxically you forget to live. Your essence covers it with losses: you do not have the ideal life, neither the dreamed opportunities nor the desired aspect. You are not the image and likeness of the eternal god of consumption, dissatisfied at every moment. Then you will always be little, defective and poor. And under that scheme everyone around you will be the same: caricatures of people, insufficient to be by your side and simply love you.
Satisfaction is a personal perception. You will discover the greatness and uniqueness in others when you achieve to admire yourself, when you know that you are a unique being that came to this reality to generate harmony and happiness. The self-criticism and humiliation only sinks and humiliates the whole humanity, destabilizes the brilliance of the human race.
But while you discover that, you will go to the shopping centers with the devotion of who enters the cathedrals, you will cross yourself to a ticket and every moment you will forget that God is in you, in your own eyes and senses. And if you doubt it, start listening and you will see that everything you really love is already in your life. The success, you will reveal, is to do what you like and full of meaning. The triumph is to be with those you love, but above all, it is self-discovery with the admirable person you are today.
Soledad is to reveal you. It is finding your essence in the tangle of mirages that society has imposed on you.
