Give Me A Reason And I Will Raise My Life
We have all had moments in which we have felt that life was carried on our shoulders, becoming, at the same time, terribly heavy.
In addition, surely, we have been able to observe this same phenomenon in others as well. We have seen it in their faces, in their gestures, in their hands, in their pride, in a halo of suffering that emanated from their soul.
At this time, we have also seen how many people fell and allowed themselves to be defeated; and how others, on the contrary, found a pretext to lean on.
Because there are people who find a foothold within themselves and, triumphantly, bring it to light with the illuminated smile of an expert player, a player who knows how to keep the best card to definitely put the balance on their side. And, although minutes before everyone considered him a loser, they get it.
These people are not especially strong, nor are they the type to keep their feelings or hide their pain. These people are the ones who have one or more sincere reasons to love life.
The motives of these people respond only to reasons or wills that they expose in the final judgment with the purity of one who knows how to summarize life in a few words. Reasons that move them to fight for life sincerely when they are hanging from the abyss and their fingers hurt unbearably.
In those moments, these people feel, just like you and I, that the easiest thing is to close their eyes and drop down. And then, they too want to abandon themselves in the hope that at the end of the gorge they will find a cushion of water in which to take refuge until their strength returns.
Finding this foothold is, for many, a difficult task. Imagine a single mother who has two children, who has just become unemployed and cannot find a job.
Surely, at first, you will look for work with enthusiasm, an illusion that has not yet been eroded by the passage of time. However, if you can’t find it, this illusion will end and you will wonder: why keep fighting every day if I go back to bed with the same result as when I woke up?
Probably, then, his children will appear in his mind, that love will appear that exceeds the mental limits to which, otherwise, he would have succumbed. You will feel that there is no other way out, that there is no other way and that you will never be able to give up when the most valuable beings you have in the world depend on it.
In addition, curiously, in these situations a strange way of thinking appears called “the gambler’s fallacy” . What is this false belief?
The person who acts under the effects of this type of reasoning thinks, like a card player, that the fact that he has already experienced many situations of bad luck in a row makes it more likely that the next time chance will be on his side . It is precisely this failure to estimate probability that maintains hope and sustains the struggle.
This happens in those moments when we think that everything we have invested to get to that point and everything we have built becomes precisely the reason that does not allow us to abandon.
In this sense, we think that we already evaluated the risk of the path we chose in its day and that it was then that we decided to accept it as the destination of our beginning, whether it was that of our best victory or the most disastrous of our failures.
Be it one way or another, these invisible, heartbreaking and sincere supports are what hold the hearts attacked by the cold, even when it seems to penetrate to the bone.
