Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

As the years have passed, you have become a hermit crab that prefers to carry its shell rather than live bare-chested.

It would help to have your shell because everything starts to scare you. And rightly so. Life has shown you more than once its teeth and love its claws.

And you don’t even trust your shadow anymore.

Predators are waiting behind every coral in the sea of uncertainty that your life has become.

You need your armor, and if someone snatches it from you, you quickly look for something to replace it: a beer can full of rust, a plastic cap, or any garbage that hides you from everything and everyone.

I know that.

But I also know that you can’t live dodging life like bullets.

You are not Neo in the Matrix.

You can’t stop living for fear of being hit.

Because my dear… you can’t avoid suffering.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned this past decade, it’s that pain is inevitable, but you can often choose to suffer it a little at a time or all at once.

If you suffer a little bit every day, you adapt better, and in the long run, you suffer less.

If you isolate yourself, you accumulate it, and the day you least expect it, it hits you all at once like a summer storm that ends in a flood that sweeps everything away.

It happened to me.

I kept getting into my bubble until one day, something pricked it, and as I had not been used to social interaction for a long time, everything blew up.

But I learned my lesson.

And now, whenever I see that I’m getting too deep in my shell, I force myself to interact with the world and people, even knowing they will fail me or experience discomfort.

Because my friend, life is still a strict swimming teacher that gives you two options: 1) go down the stairs to the pool at your own pace or 2) jump into the icy water with a push.

Don’t choose the push.

Come out of your little crab shell and dare to live without the weight of that shell you carry.

Expose yourself gradually to the discomfort of being alive, and everything will be more accessible.

Because as the saying goes, a pot that boils, flies don’t come near it.

Boil, be active. And the bad ideas and fears (the flies) will leave you alone.

A virtual hug

AG