You Are Not Depressed; You Are Distracted - Facundo
Cabral
You are not depressed; you are distracted. You believe that you have lost
something, which is impossible, because everything that you have was given to
you. You did not make a single hair of your head so you can not own anything. In
addition, life does not subtract things, it liberates you from them. It makes
you lighter so that you can fly higher and reach the fullness. From cradle to
grave, it is a school, and that is why those predicaments that you call problems
are lessons, indeed.
You lost nobody; the one who died is just going ahead, because we all are
going there. Besides this, the best of him/her, his/her love, is still in your
heart. Who could say that Jesus is dead? There is not death, but only movement.
And on the other side there are some wonderful people waiting for you: Gandhi,
Michelangelo Whitman, St. Augustine, Mother Teresa, your grandmother and my
mother, who believed that poverty is actually closer to what we call Love,
because money distracts us with too many things, and makes us apprehensive and
doubtful.
Do only what you love and you will be happy; the one who can do what he/she
loves, is blessed and destined to have success, which will definitively come,
because what must come, will come, but will come naturally. Do not do anything
for obligation or commitment, but for love. Only then there will be fullness in
your life, and with fullness everything is possible; and possible without any
effort because what will move you will be the natural force of life, the same
that raised me when the plane crashed with my wife and my daughter, the same
which kept me alive when my doctors predicted that I would have only 3 or 4 more
months of life.
Liberate yourself from the tremendous burden of guilt, responsibility, and
vanity, and be ready to live each moment deeply, as it should be.
You are not depressed, you just need to be busy. Help the child who needs
you, and that child will be your child’s partner. Help old people, and young
people will help you when you be old. In addition, service to others is an
absolutely guaranteed happiness, as certain as enjoying and taking care of
nature for those who will come tomorrow. Give without measure and you will
receive without measure.
About the Author: Gautemalean poet -- excerpted from here.
