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Tripping is not bad, falling in love with the stone is. Anyway, it’s a good thing there are stones. We are human and nothing defines us as well as our ability to overcome difficulties and setbacks.
We face life slowly, “taking a deep breath”, asking for more and counting to three. Even in difficult times we are able to turn fear into a shield of courage.
What We Learn From Stumbles
Life is a good teacher, so if we don’t learn the lesson, it repeats it. For this reason, we are often desperate, frustrated, and it seems that nothing is going right. There are no survival manuals, we learn to live when fire touches our skin.
Over time, we learn to manage our lives and which paths to choose. Jorge Luis Borges wrote this beautiful text that exemplifies everything we learn “practicing life”, stumbling and getting up a thousand times.
“Over time I learned the subtle difference between taking someone’s hand and shackling a soul. Over time I learned that love doesn’t mean leaning on someone and that company doesn’t mean security.
Over time…I began to understand that kisses are not contracts and gifts are not promises.
Over time I learned that being with someone because that someone offers you a good future means that sooner or later you will want to go back to the past. With time… we realize that getting married just because “it’s past time” is a clear warning that your marriage will be a failure.
Over time I understood that only those who are able to love you, with all your faults, without intending to change anything, can give you all the happiness you want.
Over time you realize that being beside someone just to accompany your loneliness will irreparably make you end up not wanting to see her anymore.
Over time I understood that true friends are worth far more than any amount of money. With time I understood that true friends are counted on the fingers of your hand, and if you don’t fight for them, sooner or later, you will be surrounded by false friendships.
Over time I learned that words spoken in a moment of anger can make those who have been hurt for a lifetime cry. Over time I learned that anyone apologizes, but to forgive is only for the great souls…
Over time I realized that if you hurt a friend badly, the friendship will most likely never be the same again. Over time you realize that, even if you’re happy with your current friends, someday you’ll cry for the ones you’ve lost. Over time you realize that each experience you have, with each person, is unique.
Over time you realize that humiliating or despising another human being, sooner or later, will cause you to suffer the same humiliation or contempt, multiplied by two.
Over time I learned to build all my paths in today, because tomorrow’s terrain is too uncertain to plan.
Over time I understood that rushing things or forcing them to happen will eventually cause them not to go as expected.
With time you realize that the best was not the future, but the moment you are living right now.
In time you will see that, although you are happy with those around you, you will miss those who were with you yesterday, but who are gone.
Over time I learned to try to forgive or ask for forgiveness, say you love, say you miss it, say you need it, say you want to be a friend…. in front of the tomb… it no longer makes any sense…
But, unfortunately… we only learned this with time”.
We mature more with suffering than with the passing of years
It is not time that makes us understand that defeats must be faced head-on and that we must be proud of ourselves. It is the sufferings and the pangs in the stomach that make us grow and move on.
With suffering we learn to resist what imprisons us, to fight our prejudices, to put aside the desire to give up, to stop complaining, to talk to ourselves, understand envy, get rid of the fads and rest.
