INVITATION

- THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS -

If you are lucky enough to get up this morning in a warm house, you are healthy and you know what love means, I want to invite you to reflect.

Reflect on your life and the role you have in this world. Make yourself a question. Why do you wake up in the morning? Is it work? Is it your routine? Is it something?

Reflect on the reason why you wake up in the morning and look sincerely inside of you. Is it that exciting? I mean, the reason why you wake up in the morning. Is it really worth to wake up for whatever reason?

For those answering ‘YES!’ (It only counts if you shake your head and give yourself a little smile) can honestly stop reading now. For those unsure or answering ‘NO’, I invite you to read. Read because I remember the moment there was nothing to wake up for. I remember living with inertia. I always think about the first Newton’s law of motion ‘ In an inertial frame of reference, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity unless acted upon by a force’. Probably I am not using the similitudes right. I imagined myself not regulated by any force, neither external or internal. I basically did not know where I was going, what I was doing, no plans.

Who was I?

I could use many different adjectives (some of them quite hard), but it comes to my mind what in my mother tongue (Italian) we would say; ‘neither meat or fish’. I did not have a form, there was no force, you could not read through me and see my potential as a human being (only my super cool girlfriend could at that time, that is why I love her).

ONE DAY I DECIDED TO LIGHT MY FIRE and everything changed.

I, today, invite you to light your fire.

Find a reason to wake up in the morning.

Find that dream that was under those million different masks you have been wearing for years.

Find your dream and fight for it.

Find that dream that can give some juice to your life, right here, right now, that brings a colorful happy life.

Find yourself in this dream and make it real like stunning fireworks, exploding and lighting up yours and someone else life around you.

Find that motivation that makes you wake up in the morning and does not make you go to sleep at night because the day was so good and intense you would not let it go.

Enjoy every single moment of your day and experience the feeling of humanity, the humanity we all have hope for, even though it was lost under our most remote memories.

Look into yourself, accept yourself and discover your qualities, discover the good ones and cultivate them, accept the bad ones and make it the best ones, in Nichiren Buddhism they say ‘ transform the poison in antidote’, swift your vision, it depends on how you look at things.

Discover your weaknesses, accept them and you will be, trust me, so much stronger.

Do not fight your insecurities, stay with them, stay with yourself and learn, do not escape from yourself.

You want to enjoy this beautiful life. You are the protagonist of your life, do not allow to be a secondary character.

Find your passion and with that passion build your plan and go for it.

Decide your plan and if the plan does not become reality, be gentle to yourself and begin again. Always begin again.

Once you found your passion, find your place in this world, don’t be a mirror of standardized society.

Be You. Be the best at being yourself, it is the most important role you have in life.

Celebrating Life

Once you are human again, with body and mind united, with your own voice, speak to the people next to you and spread humanity: spread love, give and dedicate part of you to the universe. The universe will smile at you in many different forms and you will find the meaning of life. Life is so beautiful and it lasts what it lasts. We are all aware of that but we do not pay the attention we should. Live the present and enjoy every single moment of it.

The past is gone, the future is the house we are building now and the present is

JUST THERE TO BE LIVED FULLY.

Cry and smile, experience all sort of emotions, do it, now, please. Melt fully in the ocean of your feelings and then shape your persona. FIND A REASON TO BE PART OF THIS WORLD, FIRST FOR YOURSELF AND THEN FOR THE REST OF THE HUMANITY.

- THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS-

Lorenzo Pilastri