– Let's see – I said still in disbelief –, are we all dissatisfied, need love and recognition and looking in the wrong place?
- Yes! Why is it so hard for you to believe?
Surely you remember that story of the donkey that, tied to a windmill and with a carrot hanging right in front of its snout, goes round and round trying to reach it, which makes the windmill work. What are the two essential conditions for the donkey not to stop?
– Be hungry.
– That's one, and the second?
"I don't know," I said after a few moments.
– Come on, make an effort. Swallowing everything they tell you without chewing it is what has you programmed.
– Damn! I know, may I never reach her!
- Exact. May it never reach her. You can't make a satisfied donkey go around uselessly.
What moves society right now is man's dissatisfaction. The one who feels incomplete, imperfect, empty. There is always something missing, there is always something to change. He goes through the world with a hole in his chest, lost, trying to fill it.
– And what are the carrots that society offers us?
– There are all kinds, the most obvious are the material ones: The new car, a new computer, fashion, having more money.
– Wait, but those carrots if you can reach them.
– Not really, every year they offer new, better, more modern cars. Every month there are more powerful, faster, smaller computers. Fashion changes every season. And money, how much is enough?
– I understand – I said sincerely trying to digest the new information –, as we did not receive the love we needed in childhood, as they did not help us appreciate our worth, as we were not recognized, now we go through life looking to fill that hole?
- So is my love. We come into this world completely vulnerable and our parents and guardians instead of treating us with the respect that a guest from the unknown deserves, with the admiration that the greatest miracle deserves and with the love that one of the most sensitive beings in this world needs. ; they conditioned us, destroyed our beauty, filled us with fears and doubts.
The latter hit me like a bag of bricks.
- Because? Why would our parents who love us do that? – I asked anxiously.
– Due to unconsciousness, ignorance, fear. Because they were treated the same. Because it was up to us to change the state of things, not them.
– That is a great responsibility!
– Freedom only comes with responsibility.
– And how do we fill that hole we have?
- We'll talk about that later, for now let's reconsider how No that void is filled.
- Very well. It is not filled with possessions or money, that is already clear.
– It is not filled with achievements. It doesn't matter how much you accomplish in life, or how hard you work, or how high you climb the ladder of "success."
– If we all carry that emptiness, it is not filled with a relationship either, correct?
- Correct. Many people come together to "share their loneliness" but an emptiness does not cover a hole... it makes it bigger.
– So it is not filled with anything that comes from outside! – I said excited.
- Exactly! That emptiness that we all feel, that dissatisfaction with what we are and with what our life is, that hole that robs us of peace, is filled from the inside out!
- But how? tell me.
– We'll talk about it later.
– You called me “my love” again.
– Mhhh jhhh…