Lesson 2: Making your Destiny
You should address yourself towards your own dreams
You make your own destiny.
You should address yourself towards your own dreams. Ortega tells a story about some explorers in the North Pole that after having travelled through all night towards North, looked again the compass next day and the coordinates marked much more Southwards how was it possible? Because they were on an iceberg.
And the iceberg moves following its own way. To take coordinates it is important as a reference. But it is not enough. It is necessary to know if we are on Earth or we are on an iceberg.
Human life is by definition movility, even if we do not want it, we are moving on time.
- Yes, everything it is relative, even if the compass is not reliable, how can I know if I am on certain?
- Mind!!, I have no said that the compass was not reliable. What it is not reliable is travelling on an iceberg, I mean, not walking on Earth. Because the current may drive you instead of your own steps. Then it is important to have a reference. You see that it is not only a question of pure reason. It is a question of starting point.
- Which one?
- Mine, yours…, each one has his own one, it is my life or your life. Each person has to construct oneself. To do it, has freedom and imagination. He must project himself. He must dream himself, he has to build himself inside his own circunstances.
- Ok, and how I know where I am and with reference to?
Exercise
- Write down, better describe where would you like to be, less than fifty words and more than fourty. Do not write where you are now, but where would you like to be in, let us say, a year.
Remember the limit about words. It is important to think concisely.
Describe yourself or better, dream yourself in a year time.
Texts
The philosophy of the vital reason it is based on the exploration of the personal life, because it believes that life «is what we do and whenever it occurs to us». Philosophy is «the formal movement that will help us to dispel doubts».
Ortega said:
- «I am I and my circumstances and if I do not save it, I do not save myself».
- «No one can say that fatality does not leave us improve our life,because the beauty of life precisely lies not on a destiny that is favourable or adverse -at it is always destiny- but on the getleness with whom we encounter it and on the strength with whom we carve a noble figure of it».
Exercises
- Write down, better describe where would you like to be, less than fifty words and more than fourty. Do not write where you are now, but where would you like to be in, let us say, a year.
Remember the limit about words. It is important to think concisely.
Describe yourself or better, dream yourself in a year time.
Maximum time: 10 minutes
REMEMBER EVERY MORNING YOU SHOULD MAKE A WISH UNTIL YOU TAKE LESSON 3 NEXT WEEK.