The fuel, the dreams

What makes us wake up everyday, what gives meaning to everything we do, the fuel for life, dreams.

Each refueling brings a period of autonomy, and depending on the quality and quantity of fuel, so we will have to refuel before or after.

It is the vital circle to any human being. Dreams must be renewed every so often if we do not want the engine of our life stops. We need to feel that we walk towards the achievement of our dreams, to feel that we own our future.

Eduard Punset - spanish lawyer, economist, and scientific popularizer - usually said "happiness is on the anteroom of happiness." In a conference, Punset tells how his dog Pastora taught him to understand the meaning of this phrase. He was preparing food for his dog while it was jumping around and wagging the tail. Then he used to leave the plate on the ground and the dog sometimes ate, sometimes did not. The mood of the dog changed when one big wish materialized. During the process of preparing the food, the dog was in the waiting room of happiness. At this period of time it was really happy.

Something similar happens to humans. We really enjoy the process towards the achievement of a dream, a goal or a success as well. And then? The mountaineer Willi Unsoeld said once: "It is curious how a dream comes fulfilled, there's just doubts left." The reason is simple, an illusion is lost and then a period of uneasy calm begins, a period that does not fill us, but which keeps us serened and with a cool head, where we feel that something is missing. This period is nothing else than a pit stop to refuel, to renew and consider new dreams. It is our nature, we are mavericks, we always want more.

We do not realize, but we usually have all ingredients in the hand: we have the car, engine, fuel, spark to start, the road, what are we missing? Learn to drive, to understand the world around us, know when to accelerate and make sacrifices, and when to go slow and enjoy. Let's enjoy the anteroom, day-to-day life. Let's shelve complexes, facing up the problems, let's gobble up the world... and let's regret having done something wrong instead of did not do anything.

A full life, full of happiness, is one where dreams and goals are renewed every so often, where we walk towards them slowly but steady, closing stages, where we get to enjoy the process and even if we stumble, we get up and we carry on with more strength and more wisdom.

"Happiness is not a goal but a lifestyle." Anonymous

Close your eyes, clear your heart Cut the cord

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The Spark

I do not remember exactly when I started to dream about the real possibility of travelling abroad to soak up other cultures and ideas, to expand my professional and personal formation, to grow as a person and reach new horizons; maybe always... although one of the earliest aware memories was in the university period.

Involved in these thoughts I saw it clearly, if I wanted to take firm steps in any direction before should take a look inside to know me better and know what I was capable. How? Finding my own limitations, especially in terms of study and work capacity. (*)

The search for these limitations involves inherently finding yourself and get to know each other better, as when an engine is tested in a test bench to define its characteristics and parameters. Every time we test our limits, we increase the knowledge about our characteristics as individuals. In this regard, comes to my head those Portuguese Cartographers and Navigators who came to define the map of african continent by means of incursions. The incursions are the quest of our limits and the map is the self-knowledge acquired by the results.

In this happen, is when for the first time the phrase "the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle" ceased to be a simple sentence and became a practice in my life.

(*) It is amazing what capable is a person when has motivation and zest, not to mention if furthermore this person has anger contained by vicissitudes of the past. Anger controlled and focused can be for a person like nitrous oxide N2O for a car engine, a powerful revulsive.