Being aware means not only realizing what is going on and paying attention to what you are doing, but it also means to be alert, vigilant, always on the look out. When you decide to learn something new, you focus all your attention on the new notions in order to understand, assimilate and make them your own. When they become part of your personal knowledge, they became part of you, thus contributing to your transformation into a more complete human being. Personal growth brings you closer to real progress, to a better understanding of yourself and others. The sun rises and sets, good opportunities show up and disappear, leaving you with a great sorrow, the regret of having been unable to catch them. You have not been alert, ready to grasp them. You were sleeping when dawn broke in the eastern sky and you missed a wonderful sight. Tomorrow, maybe, you shall not have another opportunity to enjoy such an experience. How sad it is to see so many lives being wasted…perhaps even your own! The days drag along, one after the other, always the same, with no excitement, and you do not realize the many opportunities given to you to live fully, to understand the meaning of each instant – because you take everything for granted. You don’t make any effort to see beyond the appearance, to discover what else can be done with what you have. Sometimes, in the evening, you are glad that another day is over: but you don’t feel the satisfaction of those who made the best of their time, who enjoyed each instant as something magnificent and unique. You release your day, you discharge it as a burden, without thinking that it will never come back. You worry about tomorrow, but forget to appreciate today. Yes, you keep dragging along...day... after day...after day...
Remember Thoreau’s words? “… a life of quiet desperation” (i.e. dull, lazy resignation)?
Is this the way you want to live?
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