We have heard thousands of times that "time puts everyone in their place". We may have even wished that this would happen, that life would give those people who do harm their due, or that it would reward us for doing things right. However, we cannot say that this is true or false, for the designs of destiny are beyond our understanding. What happens, in truth, is that this saying is misunderstood. We are neither vigilantes nor can we expect anything to happen by divine inspiration to others. It is that life offers us the possibility to reflect and take a step forward. In other words, the reality is not that we are going to pay the consequences of our actions, it is that we cannot avoid that what we do marks our vital trajectory.
Life takes perspective and acts, even if it is not always as we want or expect. By now we know that time is in no hurry, for it is a wise judge that does not pass judgment immediately. When we don't like something, when we find it unpleasant or unfair, we always turn to the idea of destiny as a justice. However, this is just another way of closing our eyes so as not to contemplate what we cannot control. This makes us feel that everything is fine and that our happiness is not in danger. Let's say that believing in a just world is a way of self-deception that leads us to get rid of what we don't want to look at. Our mind makes us feel the need that we can control everything, but the truth is that we can only manage a certain part of our experiences.
Besides, in any case, we can't expect good things to come to us if we stand by and watch life without acting. What is really effective is to sweat it out in order to have a chance of winning a competition, but nothing guarantees it, not even luck. Many times it is not fair what happens to us, but it is that the idea of fairness is only in our mind. However, this is not bad in its fair measure because it helps us to protect ourselves, to not close ourselves out of fear and to order our world. It would be very complicated to live without fear thinking that we may be the next to suffer a misfortune and have to deal with certain difficulties. In any case, it is important that we try to confront and work against injustices instead of approaching positions with the passivity that characterizes us.
That is why we must avoid falling into the trap of victimhood and complaining, sowing seeds that allow us to balance the forces in the same way that an athlete trains every day to have a chance of winning the competition. Being a good person does not guarantee that wonderful things will happen to us, just as being bad will not fill someone's life with misfortunes. But all this doesn't matter, because what we should be concerned about is what we can do every day for our lives and the lives of others. We are all free for our actions but not for the consequences. A gesture, a word or a bad action always has a more or less perceptible impact, and even if we do not believe it, time is a very wise judge.
In conclusion, a basic and essential way to keep in mind that every act, no matter how small, has consequences, is to make use of what is known as "full responsibility". Being responsible does not only mean taking the blame for our actions, it means understanding that we have an obligatory capacity to respond to others, that human maturity begins by making us responsible for each of our words, acts or thoughts that we generate to promote our well-being and that of others. Understanding that, for example, the loneliness of now is a consequence of a bad action of the past is undoubtedly a good step to discover that we are all united by a very fine thread where a negative or disruptive movement, brings as a consequence a knot or the rupture of that thread.
Do you think that time puts everyone in their place?
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I heard time heals everything. Well it's true i remember it was the time when I wasn't able to qualify for my entrance exam although I applied twice but later on i got admissions in other field. Where i feel myself suitable and comfortable.