The Stars Say That We Are The Fleeting Ones
I’ve long been tired of blowing dandelions, wishing my birthday candles, and searching for four-leaf clovers. Now I look for magic in my fingers and luck in my heart… Because after all, we are the ones who are fleeting and not the stars. Therefore, the best time to be happy is always now.
It is possible that many of us feel identified with these lines, however, when was the last time we dared to put the watch -and the mobile- aside to live the “here and now” with intensity? People often forget that the term “present” also means “gift,” and that good gifts are enjoyed, delighted, and above all appreciated.
Someone from whom we should learn every day are children. Magic and the most innate passion take place in each of his games. They go from one stimulus to another appreciating that present, where infinite interesting things happen to learn from. Until soon, the voice of the adult appears urging them, introducing them to that disease called PRISA and an enemy called TIME.
We have become used to measuring time based on quantity and not quality. Children can only be children and play from 6 to 7, while adults postpone our happiness to Friday or summer vacation. It is not the right thing to do. We suggest you reflect on it.
The society that no longer looks at the stars
Fleeting things have always seemed beautiful to us. A winter flower, the dew drop at dawn, the rainbow after the storm … Now, we forget that we too are fleeting and wonderfully beautiful, and that time is not something that we have exactly guaranteed. Time is a gift and it is in our power to know how to take advantage of it.
However, it is not something we are doing exactly right. We are no longer anything like those societies that looked at the stars and learned from their cycles. We live in the multitasking society, where we have run out of space for reflection or imagination. Time, now, far from being a gift, is slipping from our hands. It is like the stardust that orbits lost between the planets.
We urge our children to put down their toys, to finish homework early to go to language class, later to music, and then to ballet. We, meanwhile, prepare tomorrow’s agenda and attend to the news. Those news programs, in the lower part of which appear more headlines, so that we do not lose the feeling of immediacy at any time. Because something always happens that we must know.
We are that society that only looks at the stars to make wishes: to cry out for lost happiness. Because multitasking and overexertion do not result in efficiency. The brain does not work this way. Overload makes you inefficient and hopelessly unhappy.
David M. Levy, scientist and professor at the University of Washington, explains that in order to learn to be more present, it would be necessary to connect to silence from time to time. Our attention is limited and yet we fill our minds with multiple persistent stimuli and noises.
We need our own mental ecosystem where we can relax. A forest, a marsh of peace and silence in the center of the mind where we can stop our clock to appreciate time for what it is: a gift. A dimension in which to immerse ourselves with our five senses, as children do when we allow them to “be children” for real.
Because life satisfaction is not achieved by the tasks performed or by the number of experiences lived. But because of the intensity with which one has known how to appreciate each act, each detail, each aspect of his personal history. This is where our true inner light is found, that which would surely rival the brightest star in the sky.
