REFLECTIONS ON LIFE

A woman was feeling exhausted because she had been working all day in the city, so she decided to drive out to the sea. After she'd driven for over an hour, she arrived at a beautiful, deserted stretch of sand just as the sun was going down. The sea was at its highest point of the day, but the tide was just beginning to go out, so she parked her car and started walking. She was strolling along the beach when she noticed a young man who seemed to be dancing at the water's edge. She watched him, as time and again he bent down, picked something up and then threw it into the sea. As she drew nearer to the man, she saw on the sand thousands of starfish which had been washed onto the beach by the tide. She was amazed because she'd never seen so many starfish at once but, at the same time, she thought it was a sad and hopeless sight because the stranded starfish seemed sure to die when the tide went out and they dried up. Then she noticed that one by one, the young man...

The author Facundo Cabral  wrote what you might call “a story about life” In fact it has happened to almost all of us, maybe everybody, however this poem should be music to our ears, especially when we are going through difficult situations. Enjoy it!  You are not depressed, you are distracted... Distracted from the life that inhabits you. You have a heart, a brain, a soul, a spirit, so how can you feel poor and wretched? Distracted from the life that surrounds you: dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers…   Don't be like those who suffer for one human being  when there are more than 7 billion and living alone is not so bad, I have a good time, deciding what I want to do at each instant, and thanks to the solitude I know myself, which is essential in order to live. Don't be like those who feel old at 70, forgetting that Moses directed the exodus at 80 and Rubinstein could play Chopin at 90 better than anyone, just to m...