Sometimes not giving up is loosing

First of all we have to know what is essential, and what is not.

Then we have to be able to be able to focus and pursuit the essential.

And that already takes a whole life.

Of course, we need some distractions too, to have fun, to meet people, to laugh and sing and make absurd things, and to remember that everything is a bit absurd. At least in the perspective of one who knows nothing.

But even so there is a kind of step of magic that allows us to distinguish between what's essential and not. It's different for each one of us. It's what makes us feel fulfilled, flowering, growing.

In sum, it is putting our will outside. Fulfilling it and see what happens, how reality responds.

But many times, like a fish caught in a net, we "want" something. We feel bad if we don't have it. And so we go after it and we can go for the longest time.

Meanwhile, our heart is beating somewhere else, or perhaps completely asleep, dreaming dreams far away from our consciousness, but that, nevertheless, are part of our most inner being.