Why you should just get started, trust yourself and create.

Fernando Aguilar
3 min readNov 29, 2017

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Nothing comes without action.

When I start writing I can only have a small idea about what I’m going to talk about. And when after I have already started, I come to see what I’m talking about.

“Traveler, there is no path.
The path is made by walking.
Traveler, the path is your tracks
And nothing more.

Traveler, there is no path
The path is made by walking.
By walking you make a path
And turning, you look back

At a way you will never tread again
Traveler, there is no road
Only wakes in the sea.”

— Antonio Machado

And as long as the words come out, my fingers move in the keyboard to create a whole different story about my own questions of life.

But there is no questions without answers, and you can realize it by yourself. The answers is also there, waiting in nature for you to find it.

Nature isn’t the idea of forest — everything observable is nature.
If it isn’t inside of you, it is nature, and you can observe to learn. Other humans, animals, trees, the wind, crystals, and even food.

Notice here that food is a different word than animals. And by knowing which way the wind blows, there is only chance to feel how good it is to breath fresh air.

Continuing to write until I finish this session of time-block. Focus is a virtue. And the fast I can get back to it, the better I use my own time.

Writing might be the comfort that I need. I’m not going back to whatever I was anymore… There is no going back, there is only the certainty of finding fulfillment in the now, while I step into the night.

But you see. Not always I was like this. And yesterday I was a completely different person than I am today. Last semester I had a completely different approach and priorities to life.

But if I change so much, what is there that still the same, the essence, the essential? I think that it is the vision that I have, the vision of a better and united world, one with mutual love and prosperity.

One day I met one man that told me about this thing, emotional intelligence. I find it easy today to manage my emotions. But it also wasn’t always like this.

And I can be sure that it’s harder and harder for young people to manage their own emotions. Suicide is increasing so much…

This is why I’m sharing!

This makes me feel this internal need to help, doing something. To share my perspectives, how I did it, how I’m doing.

It might help someone, I don’t know.

The university is a place where people find it normal to be unhealthy. The feeling of incapability causes problems, and the teachers ignore and neglect the human part of the students.

The students subject themselves because they see no other choice.

There is always a choice. There is always a path to walk.

#Day 21

Reviving #The100DayWritingProject

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Fernando Aguilar
Fernando Aguilar

Written by Fernando Aguilar

• • Outputting thoughts as they emerge from inside ••

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