We do it because we have a problem. Both, you and me. The problem is simple, but very complicated to transmit.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”
Arthur Ashe.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”
Arthur Ashe.
You swim, you dive.
Your lungs are overflowing with air, air is the life you have. Irrelevant worries are in your head, but not in your lungs. When you want to realize that you cannot move, that you are starting to drown… You start to fight and the air starts to run out, each movement you make, faster.
You struggle to live, the worries are not so much because they do not even exist. You only want one thing, to live for that breath of air that you lack.
You don’t want to get out of the water to work, you don’t want to go out for those vacations that you have paid for. You want to see that smile again, you want to talk to those people again, feel the bass of those songs hitting you, you want to fall in love or fall out of love, jump, run and laugh… You want to live.
We forget that the air will run out one day, we live as if nothing had happened. You have to cling to life at every moment.
The strong chains that prevent you from getting out of the water are not so strong, if you raise an elephant with a fine chain it will never break it because it will not be the chain that dominates it, the chain is inside us. From The Printer Of Feelings we try to make other type of chains 🙂
Sometimes we don’t think about the most obvious things as what we are doing in those present moments, how our life is only little moments spread in time. All those great moments should be working for your present because that’s where life is!
Time has gone at full speed, and in the meantime we were in our routine and monotony. All day was the same and we lived waiting to do those things that didn’t happen. We live for that week of holiday. We can spend hours seeing other lifes, even more, wishing for their lives instead of working on our own. I wanted to take some risk, get out of my comfort zone.
I just want to feel alive, I love the moments when you really know you are happy, when you really feel the time going and you hold it all you can, because you want that moment forever, you can only feel the time when you don’t let it go, when you resist to it, if you don’t do anything it goes so fast.
We are in a cage, call however you want, monotony, procrastination, time, inaction, work… But what I feel, in my own experience, is that we like that cage, or at least we feel safe there, because when we can go outside and do something great, with family, friends, couple… We prefer to be in the cage, we are afraid of changing decisions, of significant decisions, of taking some risk, some adventure… For me the only way to break with it and live is remembering how I felt when I did it. Inaction is more comfortable than action, but only the accion will make you feel alive.
So I decided that I really needed a project that makes me do what I like, something that I’m passionate about, a project that makes me learn many new things, a project that tries to spread that “live, keep, remember. Live again”, enjoying the things that I like and with the people I want, I want to build a cage that moves with me where I want. Try to find my Ikigai, combining things I love such as creativity, photography, learning new things, challenges, people… With something the world really needs, simply a reminder that you have to feel and live more… All we have an Ikigai and I think we all should at least try to find and try to live following it as our dream, because sometimes the safe route isn’t so safe and everything can be broken in a second.
I thought about this project for a long time, but I was afraid of starting it. I was in my comfort zone, in a confort route, until it all exploded. We can stop our life when something breaks inside of us, we can stop living the present, stop thinking in the future and live in an idealized past, but I don’t want that for me. It’s all about being the person you want. It’s time to follow a dream, more specifically my dream and on my own. Sharks drown if they stop moving, do we drown without dying??
This is The printer of feelings and if you are reading this, probably, I finally started that project.
Fran.