We hope that our time in this world is one of enjoyment and well-being.
Thus, Many people strive to find satisfaction and happiness without knowing how and where to find them. They spend their lives wishing, trying and fighting against the current to have what they want and it seems that no matter how much effort they make, they don’t get it.
The process of living intelligently
Learn to live intelligently It is not something that is usually part of formal education at school, nor informal education within the family.
However, it is essential to be able to lead a life of well-being and enjoyment. But… What is it to live an intelligent life? And what is it that leads us to live it?
An example: Carla’s story
To exemplify what it means to live intelligently, I will tell you Carla’s story. She is single, she is 30 years old, she has worked in a company for 8 years, and even though at first the satisfaction of getting that job was enormous, currently she does not have the courage to get up to go to work every morning. Furthermore, she lives most of her day for her work, as she often works more than 10 hours a day.
Regarding his personal life, he has plans to get married. He loves his boyfriend Erick; However, she is not totally convinced that she wants to get married but for a long time her priority has been to start a family and she knows that Erick is the man with whom she wants to start that family. However, she is afraid of this new stage, and this makes her insecure.
One day, Carla felt an urge to leave work early, and went to the park near her house. There she sat, and she began to reflect on her three decades, and many images came to her of what happened in her life, many of them with happiness. However, she realized that much of her life has been lived with insecurities and working to achieve a better future, but when it seemed that she had reached the goal, she did not feel completely satisfied, and now that she is about to get married, Reflect on whether it’s really what you want to do.
Just at that moment, a woman of approximately 70 years old who was feeding the pigeons greets Carla, and they begin to talk. The woman, named LucÃa, tells him how much she enjoys those moments when she goes to feed the pigeons. Carla is surprised to see this woman radiant with happiness and it seems inconceivable to her that her reason for happiness at that moment was being in a park feeding birds.
LucÃa asks Carla: What makes you happy? Carla does not understand how, but at that moment, she feels confident to speak even though she is very reserved and does not talk about her feelings and emotions with anyone, but at that moment she feels the need to express what she feels. And she tells LucÃa that she really doesn’t know what makes her happy, that she has been living on automatic for months, and that she actually doesn’t remember a stage in her adulthood in which she felt satisfied with The life of her. With a look of compassion, LucÃa tells her that she understands. At that moment Carla cannot explain why she feels great relief, and she experiences a feeling that comforts her.
LucÃa explains that she knows what she is talking about, because she experienced something very similar. LucÃa tells Carla:
“My life was not always like it is now, that I live it intensely, enjoying and valuing every day. I lived most of my years without finding the meaning of my life; I had my family, my husband, my children, but the worries Economic conditions led my husband and me to struggle day and night to meet expenses. I spent little time with my children, and when I was with them my tiredness and sometimes my desperation were so great that I easily lost patience and ended up yelling at them, and There were very few times that they saw me calm. And I thought: if we had enough money and time, our life would be different.
One day my husband arrived with the news that the project he was working on with so much effort finally paid off, a very important company hired him. We felt great joy and celebrated that important moment, because finally financial scarcity was a thing of the past, and that was not all, I could stop working and dedicate myself completely to my children. The taste lasted a few days, maybe a couple of weeks. Once again I began to be intolerant of my children, I had no desire to do anything… The financial problems were gone; I had time, but I didn’t know what to do with it, and The only thing I was waiting for was for it to get dark so I could go to bed.I couldn’t find meaning in life.
I barely saw my husband, and when we were together the arguments were repeated over and over again. Until one day I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years. We started talking about all those years in which we had not seen each other and for the first time I expressed to someone everything that I had inside me and not even I knew until I talked to her. I realised that Life is not about what you have, but what you do with what you have. I apparently had everything I wanted, a husband I loved, my children, and I also got to have the financial freedom that many dream of.
She gave me some advice that has since changed my life and I would like to share it with you, I know it will help you as it did me. I have learned that Living intelligently not only makes life easier, but also makes it easier for us to fully enjoy it.; This does not mean that I do not have challenging situations, but now I look more towards solutions and do not stay in the problem.
These are the tips what I took from my friend:
Carla was surprised by what she was hearing, and not only that, she felt as if something that was asleep in her was waking up. Her gaze lit up, her posture changed; She felt different, it was as if many things she had been questioning recently were finding answers.
Without thinking, he hugged LucÃa, and walked home, with a feeling he had never experienced. She felt confident and secure, and she immediately wrote down LucÃa’s advice in a notebook; She did not want to forget them and decided to make them part of her every day.
Conclusion
It is possible that you are going through difficult times and feel an affinity for situations similar to what Carla or LucÃa experienced at some point.
You too can turn your life around. Don’t continue wasting your energy on what doesn’t contribute to you, use it intelligently. to live a quality life that provides well-being.
I invite you to live intelligently, make your life an experience full of enjoyment, learning and appreciation.
If you want to know more about how to live intelligently, I invite you to contact me.