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We live to enjoy Life is the way it is, we don't need to change it for our satisfaction. We do not need to pretend to change it to make us feel better. The same happens with people, sometimes we feel overwhelmed and we want people to change the way they are. What happens with us is that we want to change the world and only the world is the way it is. We don't need to change anything to live in it. What we need is to adapt to all the changes. The beauty of the world is in its simplicity, in accepting that in everything there is a very particular beauty, that everything is different and different through the lenses of thousands of spectators. What is a problem for me is a solution for someone else. What for some is a stone in their path for others is a challenge that calls to be challenged. The important thing is that we must transcend beyond what we think, feel, think, or live. In this world, we are all important because we have come to it and it has not been by chance. We all have a mission even if we do not know it, even if we do not understand it because life has its mysteries. Sometimes we realize over the years that our lives have been tied by events with people who we saw pass through our lives without pain or glory but who have had something to do with the situation we are facing today.

Memories come from a yesterday that was not very significant and for the now it has great meaning. We must go through life leaving good footprints. After all, when we look back our footprints may be blurred because we did not leave much. Yet our present is tied to the past by our deeds, memories, and situations that may not have meant much to us. Sometimes we strive to achieve goals that are far beyond our reach and no matter how hard we try we don't succeed. Perhaps in the future, we can better visualize why our paths have been cut short. I remember a friend of mine who was trying to get passport papers and visas for her parents because she wanted to have them by her side in another country and everything was too much of a struggle. She lived in a constant struggle trying to do what she thought was best for her parents. She was a fighter. Once when her mother was an old lady, while my friend was arranging the papers to go to another country, her mother fell ill and never got out of bed except to go to meet God. My friend was frustrated by the situation. Even more so because she could not come to this country because during the pandemic, flights were forbidden. She kept insisting on arranging the documents for her father and everything was difficult, she fell into a strong confrontation with herself because she could not arrange anything according to her needs and will. She changed in her way of being, she was irritated for a long time. Months passed and there were obstacles here and there. One day I learned that my friend was ill. She was hospitalized and had been infected by the deadly virus for the third time. This time she couldn't fight it and lost her battle with life. I was very sorry. I lost a friend who was very troubled in her way of thinking and living but had a big heart, with which she helped many people. She was even a benefactor of some medical centers in my country. Which made me remember what I was constantly telling her. Don't fight against the circumstances you don't know why everything happens in this difficult way. Do what you have to do but take it easy and wait for the normal course of events. He never listened to me, of course.

The explanation of everything did not reach her but it did reach me. Her life was not going to be very long as fate had this letter in store for her that she would never know. If her father had traveled as she wanted he would have been alone in a country unknown to him. He is not a young man, he is not on his own because he is a very old man. I believe that even today they have not told her father that his daughter, my friend, died. Life is a school that teaches us so much about our own experiences and the experiences of other people. Learning from everyone and everything makes us better people and more knowledgeable about the authentic ways of life. Let us enjoy everyone and everything around us. Let's not complain about things that are different from us. It is difficult, it has taken me a lifetime to understand it, but I have had the pleasure that God has allowed me to see with my own eyes the changes that life makes and why we should respect all living beings as they are. Images are from unsplash. I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.

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