The Butterfly

You are young, your life is just beginning. Life attracts you with all its glamour and you are anxious to experience everything, to taste everything, to possess everything, and to live... in the fast lane! But life does not consist in taking. Life is not just anything, it is something that has to be considered, prepared... You have been made for great things and not just to "live life" no matter how, without planning, without understanding what is the meaning of your life.

In order to find fulfilment, you need to concentrate all your strength, your energy and your time to prepare for the future. Do you have a career plan? Are you planning for a specific state of life?.. Your life is built by you! Only you are responsible for it! Other people can help you, but it is you who make your own life! You will be the first one to collect its fruits, but your life will also influence the entire community that you belong to. And the success of your life will be proportionate to the work and effort that you will have put into it.

To take hold of your life you dispose of a limited time. You dispose also of a precious tool: your body. You will learn to use it, to take care of it and to develop it, while training it and submitting it to the power of your will. Because it is you who have to decide what to do with your life; it is not up to the desires of your body. A body that is totally submitted to the spirit acquires a tremendous strength. In the opposite case, the desires of your body will reduce your aspirations to the primitive level of material and temporal pleasures; instead of progressing, you will get worse and suffer from the consequences of this degradation.

You want to have fun... that's normal. Leisure is necessary to relax and rest, but... only after your daily work, well done as your first duty. If you give priority to pleasures and leave your duties for "later", it will be as if you were placing a blindfold over your eyes. This attitude will give you some short-term enjoyment but, in the long run, it will cause you difficulties and pain.

Life has a specific time for each stage of growth, and wisdom consists in not delaying each of these steps of your development. Each new stage will force you to confront new constraints and needs, but then... you may lack the time to deal with them if in the previous stages you have wasted time.

You are not a butterfly... and, consequently, all throughout your life, something must distinguish very clearly your behaviour and your way of thinking. You have an immense potential inside of you, capable of bringing you out of the banalities of life and into doing something great and beautiful. That is necessary, first of all, for your own good, but also for the good of others. And the key to reach fulfilment in your life is...

effort, perseverance and willpower.