The importance of pausing, stopping and evaluating 03-12-2020
By: Katiuska Suárez
It is so necessary to be able to stop, discover, value and thank for everything we have. Sometimes, immersed in everyday life, we do not perceive the wonders that are part of our daily life.
We walk so fast, we forget even to breathe and be able to contemplate what surrounds us.
It is so important to stop and value what has been lived up to this moment. Review and evaluate if the path you take leads you to where you really want to go. Ask yourself if you have really discovered what makes sense in your life and if what you do is in line with what makes sense in your life. Evaluate if this is the direction you want to continue. If you find out that you don't, then it's time to identify what you should do or what you should stop doing to achieve that which you long for and which gives meaning to your existence. Perhaps it is also time to let go of luggage and loads that delay your path, let go of tools that no longer serve you, even if at some point they have saved you.
Life must not pass over us, life has been given to us as a gift to be lived in the best possible way, from love, from joy and so that we may be happy.
To achieve this it is our responsibility to find out what it is that gives us well-being, what are those things that generate that feeling of fullness. It would be a good idea also, in the middle of this pause, to evaluate if you are really happy. Starting from the definition of happiness of Dr. Jorge Bucay, who tells us that happiness is that feeling of serenity that you feel when you know that you are on the right path; then we realize that we can have different moments in our life, moments of sadness, joy, difficulty and this does not imply that you are not a happy person.
Life is cyclical, behind unpleasant moments will come many better moments and vice versa. And perhaps that is our greatest impediment in our path, the lack of adaptability to change, our inflexibility in the face of what may come and that implies a readjustment. That resistance to change turning into a great enemy.
We must be open to change. The world is and will be of those who learn and know how to adapt to them, of those who learn from our mistakes and who know ourselves to be imperfect and fragile.
