Attachment to the past prevents us from seeing the potential of the present

My generation has experienced the rise. The financial prosperity, the ever faster change and the adrenaline that it entails, the promise of an increasingly simple, beautiful, comfortable and fun-filled future. We are so lazy on average. We have become soft, mentally and physically spineless. We let ourselves be overwhelmed by nothingness; we live in a catalepsy of perennial boredom. We are so addicted to emotions borrowed from events that do not exist, that we stand to life as the pleasure of sex is to pornography. Every tiny obstacle, laughable compared to those who have experienced wars and devastation, seems overwhelming. Mentally incapable, we are willing to believe in any pre-packaged nonsense just to avoid the chore of thinking too much and asking too many questions. Today things are changing. I hear so many friends who can't let go, who would like to go back to "before". Every now and then I discover, to my horror, that I have the same tendency because your weaknesses are also my weaknesses. When it happens I invite you to drive away from the attachment to the past like an annoying fly.

Today's change is a great opportunity for all of us. It is the possibility of confronting ourselves with a more difficult reality, getting out of the dizziness, facing a present that puts us to the test and through it become stronger. Do strengthen ties with those who are close to us and are still willing to think. Employing dignity and courage as essential values because without them there is the only mere survival of the biological machine or a platform without the possibility of being overwhelmed by that wave of wonder and terror by what Kant called the sublime without which perhaps existence is only a useless waste of resources.

m.m.