What are you going to leave home with after this quarantine? What is your goal? What are your dreams?
Updated: Aug 28, 2020
For many of us, this year started off very quietly, for sure we made in December last year a projection of goals for 2020 and we started the first days of this decade excited. In January we heard about a virus in China, we saw it so distant that we never imagined that it would affect us. Colombia from China is many thousands of kilometers away. But it turns out that no, that the world today is connected, and that we are living something that involves all humans.
And there are different theories as to why this is happening, many are looking for the culprit, looking for a cure, or waiting for the politicians to tell us.
Waiting for a lot of decisions to be made by others to know what is going to happen with OUR life. Because for all of us facing the present is a challenge that we did not have time to take on. We were all immersed in a life script that someone invented and that we all follow. We are born, we go to kindergarten, then to school, then to university, then we look for a job, we get married, we shop, we buy.
We go home and we go on vacation once a year, if we can. In life we fill ourselves with things, hopefully good and surely expensive things, that we think we need to live, because everybody needs them and who am I not to need them?
But one day, a distant virus, stops us in our tracks and tells us: Let's see, you who had such a well assembled system, full of thousands of things, so much responsibility, children with super busy schedules, jobs that do not even allow time to be with the family; you go home and do not go out. And we stay at home, now we have time and we start to fill that time again with things, an app to exercise, an app to do yoga, a new book, a new series, to organize and clean the house, to organize the closet. Again we enter the eternal loop of doing and doing for fear of feeling. To feel who we are, to realize who is the human being that I am. Today we have a valuable moment, and it is to have time to discover who I am and what I want.
Today we finally seem to realize that people are dying of the flu! And no doctor or health system can stop it. In other words, we realize that we are mortal, that life is wasted!
That the only thing I can do today is to live it, but without having to follow the script that someone defined, but we have the time to define our own life script. Many of us today have a 15-day strike, and it is a gift to write our script, the one that makes us happy! And so what if I have to dismantle the old one, at least I'm alive! So my goal for when I finish this quarantine, is to leave knowing who I really am and what I want to do.
