happens in life to go through periods when you feel bewildered, disappointed by the world, immersed in the problems that we cling like a trap, so that a feeling of helplessness ... It seems that the forces that have helped to overcome many difficulties, have suddenly vanished and everything falls on you, even what might seem easy to deal with the first now stands as an insurmountable boulder.
We are assailed by a thousand fears from the past, but above all that the future looks gloomy, as if we were to face the storm and we feel helpless in the boat at the mercy of the waves in rough seas, with the rudder does not respond to commands and sails torn and beaten by the wind. Hold fast to the faith is hard, just like the boat wobbles, but no storm we should discourage knowing that God, as written by S. Augustine, "is with us even when we just believe, He loves us even when it seems to abandon us."
Never despair can come back after the storm the rainbow, to keep your cool in the ocean of suffering and reflect on what we had and we still have the beautiful life. Although the pain we feel is strong should not blind us to live the present and enjoy the beauty of a flower garden, the moon peeping through the branches in the trees ... The pain can be overcome by opening ourselves to others, discovering that there are those who need us and it is fruitless to withdraw into a cocoon, when the world out there waiting for our contribution.
The loneliness and sadness of the heart may be comforted by the reassuring words and the embrace of a friend, reading a good book ... a meditation that makes us calm, knowing how to live and understand what's happening at every moment.
I remember the words of the famous "IF" by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), who in times of great difficulty re-read carefully, concentrating on each phrase starting with the first calls that just keep calm, to end with the statement that when you become a real man you can give the right value to every moment of our life, joyful or painful it may be.
If you can keep your head when all about
you Are losing theirs
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
, taking
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied
not deal in lies, Or being hated
not give way to hating,
yet not look too good, nor talk too wise ...
If you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken Twisted by knaves,
to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things
- for which you gave your life - destroyed
And stoop and build them up with worn out tools ...
If you can force your heart, your nerves, your wrists
to carry you after a long time since you hear them and so hold more
when there is nothing in you Except the Will
who tells them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings
without losing the common touch.
If they can not hurt you neither foes nor loving friends
.
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
giving value to every moment that passes
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
and - most importantly-
you'll be a Man my son! Rudyard Kipling
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