Learn To Live, That’s What It’s About
You do not learn to live in school. You learn to live based on what you have stumbled upon, your mistakes… your goal? To be happy and to enjoy every day.
But why is learning to live so difficult?
Learning to live means accepting
Throughout your life, there will be something that you find very difficult: acceptance. Acceptance is something that begins with yourself and that you implement with others.
But to accept others, you must first accept yourself, and that is not always easy.
Accepting yourself means that you love and value yourself despite your faults and shortcomings. Accept that you are not perfect, that you have been wrong, and that they have helped you become a better person – you should never be ashamed of it.
Once this is done, you can begin to accept other people, which is much more difficult.
You have to accept that people will come in and go out of your life as they decide for themselves. They will lie to you, disappoint you, and betray the trust you have in them.
All of this is a part of life, and to learn to live you have to accept it. If you do not, you will end up fighting against everything, which will be completely useless.
Things keep happening because there is one thing that is completely out of your hands: changing other people.
Tomorrow is a new day
We will lie to you if we said that life should be just bright and colorful, because the truth is that many times we will be in dumb darkness. But learning to live also means that you stop doing everything so dramatically, because sometimes you can see things as more problematic than they actually are.
Not everything is so terrible. The biggest problem is that your emotions amplify things to the point that you see everything as a sign of the end of the world. There is no doubt that many times you have looked back and thought: “it was not so bad!”, But in that moment you saw it as something absolutely terrible.
Because of all this, learning to live also means that you will not overreact to certain situations, even though you may think they are the end of the world, they are actually fleeting and later you will look at them as more experiences.
What do we recommend? That you enjoy the present, both the positive and negative things, and above all that you learn to live with them.
The bad times are also a benefit, and they can be a turning point that makes you consider how you live your life and how you can change it. It is not the end of the world: it is the beginning of a new path.
Enjoy and appreciate the moment
Another important thing that you need to do to learn to live is to enjoy the moment and better appreciate what you have right now. Time goes fast, and maybe you are so focused on something that you do not fully enjoy your life. This is a big mistake!
This does not mean that you should set aside your obligations, because of course it is true that you have to work and be responsible – much of your time is “busy”. But every day you should give yourself a little while, no matter how small it is.
You think you do not really have time to do it because you can not get it organized. It’s easy to get engrossed in laziness and chaos that makes you waste your time instead of enjoying it.
Do you want to start taking some time for yourself today? Do something every day that you like: Spend some free time with the kids, go for a walk, relax, enjoy a hobby… but do not let the days go one by one without meaning.
As you can see, learning to live is a process that will take you a lifetime, because you never stop learning. In addition to that, there are things that you will discover through your experiences as the years go by.
Life is beautiful, because even though there will be moments of darkness, there is also a lot of light. Enjoy every day and keep learning things about life, which constantly teach you something new.
What is the most valuable thing you have learned today?
