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By: Claudia Orozco
Have you ever thought what is your mission on Earth? Why are you alive? What do you mean to accomplish while living? This is one of the most profound philosophical questions, that I do not pretend to answer in this brief article. But I want you to ask yourself this question: “what do I want in my life?”
Probably you are studying hard to get a degree, a job and then a couple and a family… Or maybe you already have a family and your aim is to provide them with what they need just out of the love you feel for them… Or you are in a very difficult situation where you have just lost the reason for living… Whichever case you are in, this is a life or death question: What do you want in your life?
Check this out: what about if YOU are here to love and be loved? Easy phrase, let’s understand it. I want to analyze it backwards: to be loved and THEN love. Shall we go on?
When we are little babies, we need that love from others! We are little beings who depend totally on someone else’s protection and care. We came alive in order to receive what we need: love. Little children who end up not having a person who takes care of them suffer from a deep anguish and cannot develop interiorly as strong as a babies who receive all the love and protection from his/her parents. I want to make something clear before proceeding to the next idea: I am not saying that children who had no love as little ones, are not capable of receiving – or giving – love as grown ups. What I am saying is that it may be more difficult for them.
As babies, we receive love in various manners: by the necessary food, protection from the unknown, response to our cries, hugs, caresses, etc. Love is what moves us to life. If we have everything, but love, then we miss everything. We are lacking the spark of life. If we have all our necessities covered, but we do not have love, then we are lost… lost in wealth. The moment in which we are really going to enjoy what we HAVE is when we CAN share it with others. What’s the point of living if it’s not giving AND receiving love?
What is easier: to love or be loved? Tough question, eh? And it is also an unfair question. He, who loves a woman and doesn’t have a response back, may say that the easiest thing is to love, but the most difficult is to be loved. She, who receives love from people around her but is uncapable of understanding and saying what is going on inside her, may say that it is very easy to receive love, but it is almost impossible to demonstrate it.
I would say that we need to do our best in order to give our best. If we sit down and wait to be loved, then we are acting very selfishly. If we want to be loved, we need to love first. When we allow ourselves to open the door of our hearts for the others, THEN they are going to be able to come in (not before). Love is giving your best.
Do you want to be loved? Do you want to wake up all the mornings feeling you are very loved? Do you want to breath love? Then LET yourself be loved, by loving…
Very frequently we feel fear of loving. We are afraid someone might hurt us, we feel we are not good enough for people, we think we will not be able to let other people pass to our inner self. All of those ideas ruminating in our mind are nothing else but a self fulfilling profecy: we can’t love because we don’t let ourselves love, we are frightened.
Do not allow yourself to be stopped by fear. At the end, it is our decision: we decide to love or not. Love is a choice, the best option of your life. Want to be alive? Then love! Because love makes your life alive.
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