Un Motivo per Smettere di Preoccuparti — Transcript

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1. 0:00You are somewhere here on this tiny rock
2. 0:03floating in the immensity of space.
3. 0:06You cannot see yourself from this view,
4. 0:07but you are there. Maybe you are here or
5. 0:09here.
6. 0:11You could be practically anywhere on
7. 0:13this surface, but at this very moment,
8. 0:16as you listen to these words, you are on
9. 0:18a planet traveling at incredible speed,
10. 0:20crossing a space so vast that your mind
11. 0:23cannot even imagine it.
12. 0:26Because this rock is tiny compared to
13. 0:28the universe, and you are tiny compared
14. 0:30to this rock called Earth.
15. 0:32Let's try moving away a little. Look at
16. 0:35how small you are, even more so, even
17. 0:37further away. And you are there in the
18. 0:40middle of all this, a tiny being on a
19. 0:43tiny planet in a huge and immense solar
20. 0:46system.
21. 0:47Yet, somehow, all of this keeps working
22. 0:51on its own. The Earth spins, the Sun
23. 0:54illuminates the planet, the oceans move
24. 0:57, the seasons change, clouds form and
25. 0:59dissolve.
26. 1:01You don't have to remind the Earth to
27. 1:03spin, you don't have to tell the sun
28. 1:05when to rise, you don't have to convince
29. 1:08the trees to grow. All of this happens.
30. 1:11And now let's go back to you, because
31. 1:14inside you, something just as incredible
32. 1:16is happening.
33. 1:18Your heart is beating, and it is doing
34. 1:20so without you having to give it any
35. 1:22orders. The heart beats on its own,
36. 1:25about 100,000 times a day, without you
37. 1:27having to think about it.
38. 1:29And your breath.
39. 1:31You inhale and exhale continuously, even
40. 1:34while you sleep, without having to
41. 1:37remind your body to do it.
42. 1:40Yet there is something curious, because
43. 1:42despite all this, you spend a huge
44. 1:45amount of time trying to control every
45. 1:47single aspect of your existence.
46. 1:50Do you want to know what will happen
47. 1:52tomorrow? Do you want to know if things
48. 1:54will go well? Do you want to know if you
49. 1:55will make the right decision? If you
50. 1:57will make a mistake. You want to know
51. 1:59how you will reach your goals, you want
52. 2:01to know when you will reach them, you
53. 2:03want to understand what others think of
54. 2:05you.
55. 2:06And when you don't have these answers,
56. 2:08you start to worry.
57. 2:10You try to predict every possibility,
58. 2:12you try with your small logical mind to
59. 2:15control everything. But stop for a
60. 2:17moment, look at this planet.
61. 2:20It has been here for billions of years,
62. 2:22it has gone through enormous
63. 2:23transformations, it has seen many life
64. 2:25forms arise and disappear, gone through
65. 2:28climate changes, catastrophes, wars,
66. 2:30extinctions, and transformations you
67. 2:32cannot even imagine.
68. 2:33And you have arrived here for only a
69. 2:35very brief interval of time, a small
70. 2:38moment in the history of this planet.
71. 2:41And right now, you are trying to control
72. 2:43everything: your relationships, your
73. 2:45work, your future, the opinions of
74. 2:47others, circumstances, the unexpected,
75. 2:50as if the entire functioning of
76. 2:52existence depended on your ability to
77. 2:54foresee everything.
78. 2:56But that is not the case. You cannot
79. 2:58eliminate uncertainty from your life.
80. 3:00You can prepare, you can work hard, you
81. 3:02can make smarter decisions, but you
82. 3:04cannot control everything that happens
83. 3:06around you.
84. 3:08And the beautiful thing is, you don’t
85. 3:09even need to. Think about how many times
86. 3:12you’ve ruined the present by worrying
87. 3:14about a future that never actually
88. 3:15arrived. Or how many times have you
89. 3:18suffered for something that existed only
90. 3:20in your mind?
91. 3:21Or how many times have you tried to
92. 3:23force a situation, a relationship, or an
93. 3:25outcome because you were in a rush to
94. 3:28make it happen?
95. 3:29And how much energy have you spent
96. 3:31trying to hold every single piece of
97. 3:33your life together?
98. 3:35And meanwhile, the sun rose, the earth
99. 3:38turned, your heart beat, your breath
100. 3:41continued, and life went on as it always
101. 3:44has.
102. 3:45So I tell you, stop worrying. You don't
103. 3:48need to know every answer, you don't
104. 3:50need to foresee every obstacle, you
105. 3:52don't need to know exactly how it will
106. 3:54end.
107. 3:54Sure, you will face difficulties,
108. 3:56someone will betray your trust.
109. 3:59You will suffer for a while, but life,
110. 4:01in its wisdom, knows where to lead us.
111. 4:04It knows the exact moment, the most
112. 4:05authentic path, the rhythm that is right
113. 4:07for us.
114. 4:09Even when everything seems still and
115. 4:11difficult, something inside us keeps
116. 4:13moving, just like trees in winter, bare
117. 4:15and motionless, yet already ready to
118. 4:18bloom.
119. 4:20That is why I ask you to trust the
120. 4:22process a little more, because this rock
121. 4:24will keep spinning, the stars will keep
122. 4:26shining, the seasons will keep changing
123. 4:29, your heart will keep beating, your
124. 4:31breath will keep coming and going, and
125. 4:33one day, like everything else, your time
126. 4:35on this planet will also end.
127. 4:38You will leave behind this body you
128. 4:40inhabit.
129. 4:40So, why spend all this time trying to
130. 4:43control everything?
131. 4:46Why not enjoy this incredible journey a
132. 4:48little more with some lightness? Why not
133. 4:50grant yourself the luxury of not having
134. 4:53all the answers ready? Of not knowing
135. 4:55exactly what will happen tomorrow?
136. 4:57Of not knowing when you will reach your
137. 5:00goals, of living a day without having to
138. 5:02plan every single minute, of looking at
139. 5:04the sky and remembering how incredibly
140. 5:06wonderful it is to be here.
141. 5:09Do your part, work hard to achieve your
142. 5:11dreams. Love, explore, laugh, make
143. 5:13mistakes.
144. 5:15And when something slips out of your
145. 5:17control, breathe and let go, because you
146. 5:20are here on this tiny rock spinning in
147. 5:23the immensity of space, and as worried
148. 5:25as you might feel, you are part of
149. 5:28something incredibly vast, and
150. 5:30ultimately, life sustains itself—it
151. 5:32doesn't need our constant worrying.