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How bad it is
To live the best out of our life at first, we must identify some priorities.
Priorities are things, people, moments, situations, emotions we care the most.
One thing I noticed is that sometimes now I regret things I could do or people I could give more importance years ago.
But it’s not fair.
10 years ago I was just graduated at the M.Eng and my only target was going aborad to attend a PhD.
Source: the Author. This was me during the Degree party just after the Thesis Defense. In Padua there is much joviality.
I made two different selections both for Netherlands Universities. In one case, the PhD was about Downstream Processing of Microalgae while in the other case it was about Carbon Dioxide absorption on basic amine-impregnated supports.
I arrived second on both the ranks. BUT being second meant being the first of losers as the grants was single for both the PhD programs.
I remember that I received one email just after one wheelchair basketball training and I closed myself crying in a shower. My teammates did their best to pump my morale with jokes and so on.
Source: Author. Me during a match in Milan.
I was barely breathing
I watch it back now and I cannot say “how stupid I was” or “how much attached to it I was”. I had 10 years less, my targets were all around working positions and the title I could get by obtaining specific positions.
But suffering is useful when sufferance is analysed and maturated
Living our best life meaning achieving and pursuing our momentarily targets.
In this months and year I am particularly grateful of the yogic path I have started because it’s allowing me to live a much better life in terms of awareness, health and relationships as well. Besides, it surrounds me of aspiring and dedicated people that are highly motivating for me.
Who knows what will be going on in 10 years?
In this exact period I got detached from some working ambitions I had in the past of accruing huge amounts of money and I am now aiming to become a great professional to perform the best for my customers and deserving partners.
I got more present (also on a mind presence) at home, spending more time with Mary and sharing much more about our works and much more as we both share also the Yoga Path.
Health is something that without it, everything else goes on the background. Staying healthy requires some movement/training and a healthy lifestyle trying to avoid bad habits and enhancing good food. Too often we take health for granted and we realize how well we felt only when we feel bad/sick.
Source: Author. A great calamari dish in Croatia.
One last time I love having in my life are moments where I feel grateful for the people I am surrounded from and activities I feel grateful for the emotions they make me feel. I always try to be surrounded by fair, transparent, determined people with targets in their life and a strong determination to get there.
Aside of the targets all of us may have, I find motivation seeing people that “professionally” pursue their target, dedicating efforts to it. Targets are not always “the next level venture” BUT instead some of them are also connected to specific Yoga Asanas, the dedication to pursue a daily practice, bringing a son/daughter to do something or losing weight.
Source: Author. Me a few weeks ago with a friendly donkey I found in the Ghost village.
Almost every target in the life Is worth to be talked about and for those, I like the people pursuing them. That are definitely a forth aspects I am willing to cultivate and support in my life.
Living our best life then for me, means looking for what have a real matter in my life in that specific moment of life, with a potential positive reflection on my future and then living it!
