Hello friends. Have you found a song that invites you to continue on your path even in those moments when you seem to have strayed from your goals? Maybe the algorithm is coming to save you. Maybe it's not a coincidence. It has simply associated the content you consume frequently and sends you the appropriate notification. It looks like telepathy. Telepathy of the internet 馃檹.
At times it gives the feeling that the path to your goal is disintegrating. You may then experience uncertainty. No one said it was easy to get it. I think that's part of the magic of the process. I also believe that we must learn to enjoy those states of uncertainty and take advantage of them for our growth.
I was wrapped in those thoughts when the notification arrived: Cantares, by Joan Manuel Serrat. In a previous post I referred to another of his songs, or his poetry. It was like magic. It came at the right moment. Law of attraction? I really don't know.
Listening to these verses makes me reflect on the importance of taking the first step even when the path is not clear enough. It is enough to have a clear goal.
There is no other way to move forward than moving forward. It seems like a meaningless play on words but it is real. Sometimes it costs us a lot to break the inertia and when we decide to do it and we reach the end of the journey we realize that starting to move was the hardest thing.
Life is a constant transit. We need to start moving to make way for new experiences. What makes the journey truly interesting is the realization that we are building our own destiny. Knowing that we are the architects of our lives is an unparalleled feeling.
We must leave behind the fear of change. Banish the feeling of fear of ceasing to be what we are today. I am not referring to the essence of our personality, but to the fact that if life has a constant, that is change. It is impossible for us to return to a place being the same as we were yesterday.
I was thinking about these things while listening to the song that Serrat composed as a tribute to Miguel Hernandez, one of the most renowned Spanish poets. If you haven't listened to it, I invite you to do so. If you are not fluent in Spanish, it doesn't matter. I leave you some of his verses here 馃憞:
Everything passes and everything remains
But ours job is to pass
Passing by making the way
Walking over the sea....
*...Walker: are your footsteps
The road and nothing else
Wayfarer: there is no path
The path is made by walking
*The path is made by walking
And when you look back
You see the path that will never be trodden again.
Wayfarer: there is no path
But wakes in the sea... *
I thank you for your company until the end. I leave you a friendly embrace.
Text translated to English by DeepLTranslate. The photo was taken with my Xiaomi Redmi phone.
Versi贸n en espa帽ol
Hola amigos. Has encontrado alguna canci贸n que te invite a continuar en tu camino a煤n en esos momentos en los que parece que te has desviado de tus objetivos? Quiz谩 el algoritmo llegue para salvarte. Quiz谩 no sea casualidad. Simplemente ha asociado el contenido que consumes con frecuencia y te env铆a la notificaci贸n adecuada. Parece telepat铆a. Telepat铆a de la internet 馃檹.
A ratos da la sensaci贸n de que el camino hacia tu meta se va desintegrando. Puede que entonces experimentes incertidumbre. Nadie dijo que fuera f谩cil conseguirla. Creo que esa es parte de la magia del proceso. Creo tambien que debemos aprender a disfrutar esos estados de incertidumbre y aprovecharlos para nuestro crecimiento.
Envuelto en esos pensamientos estaba cuando lleg贸 la notificaci贸n: Cantares, de Joan Manuel Serrat. En un post anterior me refer铆a a otra de sus canciones, o de sus poes铆as. Fue como magia. Lleg贸 en el momento justo. Ley de atracci贸n? La verdad no lo s茅.
Escuchar estos versos me hace reflexionar sobre la importancia de dar el primer paso a煤n cuando no tengas el camino lo suficientemente claro. Basta con tener clara la meta.
No hay otro modo de avanzar que no sea avanzando. Parece un juego de palabras sin sentido pero es real. A veces nos cuesta mucho romper la inercia y cuando nos decidimos ha hacerlo y llegamos al final del trayecto nos damos cuenta de que comenzar a moverse fue lo m谩s dif铆cil.
La vida es un transitar constante. Necesitamos comenzar a movernos para darle paso nuevas experiencias. Lo que hace el camino verdaderamente interesante es darnos cuenta de que estamos construyendo nuestro propio destino. Sabernos los arquitectos de nuestras vidas es una sensaci贸n inigualable.
Debemos dejar atr谩s el miedo al cambio. Desterrar la sensaci贸n de temor a dejar de ser lo que somos hoy. No me refiero a las esencias de nuestra personalidad sino a que si la vida tiene una constante, esa es el cambio. Es imposible que regresemos a un lugar siendo los mismos que lo visitamos ayer.
En esas cosas pensaba mientras escuchaba la canci贸n que Serrat compuso en homenaje a Miguel Hern谩ndez, uno de los poetas espa帽oles m谩s reconocidos. Si no lo has escuchado te invito a que lo hagas. Si no dominas el espa帽ol, no importa. Te dejo algunos de sus versos por ac谩 馃憞:
Todo pasa y todo queda
Pero lo nuestro es pasar
Pasar haciendo camino
Camino sobre la mar...
...Caminante son tus huellas
El camino y nada m谩s
Caminante: no hay camino
Se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino
Y al volver la vista atr谩s
Se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar
Caminante no hay camino
Sino estelas en la mar...
Te agradezco la compa帽铆a hasta el final. Te dejo un abrazo de amigo.
Texto traducido al ingl茅s por DeepLTranslate. La foto fue tomada con mi tel茅fono Xiaomi Redmi.