#4. It’s never too late until it is.
Love is not forever, neither is friendship, and living hurts. You already know that, but it’s not enough to know it; you have to feel it inside.
Because it is one thing to understand and quite another to experience and feel inside.
As a result of this experimentation, specific lessons have penetrated me that I want to share to save you some bad moments in your journey.
1. Your friends are less important than you think.
Because most of the people you label as friends in your 20s or 30s are not.
They fall into the first two points of the Aristotelian segmentation of friendship.
- Friendship for utility = friends with whom you share work, studies, etc.
- Friendship for pleasure = friends you party with. They are often confused with friends by virtue, but they are not. Friends for fun will be in your days of wine and roses but not in the autumn of your life.
- Friendship by virtue: these are the true friends, those who genuinely care about you without needing to belong to any of the previous categories.
Tip: if you have a friend by virtue, forgive him for his mistakes (forgiveness is proper of great souls). Because if you don’t, you will be the one who belongs to group one or two, but you will not be a true friend.
2. The better you do, the more bad people you will attract.
The world is full of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Opportunists are everywhere, waiting for you to do well so they can snuggle up to you and then dump you at the slightest setback.
Having a naive view of the world will not benefit you.
Does this mean you have to be a bad person?
Of course, it doesn’t. It means you must be as clever as a snake and as good as a lamb. In the balance lies the virtuous path 🙂
You must understand that bad people are like thirsty people, and good people doing well are like water.
And a thirsty person will not go looking for another thirsty person, right?
They will go looking for water to quench their thirst; they will go looking for you.
3. Nothing is what it seems
Good can be harmful. And the bad can be good.
And as in the Ying and Yang, in everything wrong, there is a seed of something good, and in everything good, there is a seed of something terrible.
During your life, you will discover that as the years go by, the sweetest memories are those moments you lived as periods of struggle.
And the bitterest memories will be those that you celebrated when they came into your life as victories.
Winning all the time atrophies your instincts and your ability to improve.
And adversity is what makes you grow and progress.
Keep a plant away from the light; it will grow until it reaches the sun’s rays with its branches (don’t forget).
4. It’s never too late until it is.
There is a time for everything in life; the problem is that when you do the right thing at the wrong time, all you get is frustration.
- There is a time to do the Europe Interrail.
- There’s a time to fall madly in love with someone you know will break your heart.
- There’s a time to screw up.
But there’s also a time to put your life together and be an adult.
Moments shouldn’t be stretched too far; every season of life has to last as long as it has to stay.
And how do you know a season is over?
You’ll feel it.
It’s like arriving at a party you’ve been to a thousand times, always having a good time, and don’t feel at home anymore 🙂
A virtual hug
AG
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