I was thinking about all the things we do to try for a little happiness, and that's where my vision board idea for 2025 comes from. Sometimes I think I have too many dreams, and sometimes I punish myself for being too immersed in reality, or that reality crushes me with its sincerity and doesn't give me the time or the resources to carry my dreams forward.
And the fact is that living in a country like Cuba has its own paths, many here will understand what I am saying with certainty, others... not so much. Everyone perceives life according to their own experiences.
But no matter how bitter the experiences of a being born, and still living on a Caribbean island that has lived constantly in crisis; every year it is worth projecting a slate that reflects the yearnings to be fulfilled in the next round of the sun that our planet will make, and marks a period numbered 2025 so that we do not feel so lost in this world.
I am running a small yoga studio. If I teach Yoga it is because I firmly believe that humanity needs to relax (even a little bit). And I dream every day of seeing happiness on faces in spite of circumstances, people empowered in their emotions who make good decisions for their lives, even if they seem small to the grandiloquent view of the success gurus.
I believe that social, human crises are caused by each of our personal decisions. If we change each one individually, of course the collective changes and the decisions as a society would be different, and we would not give unscrupulous and sick people the chance to anchor themselves in power to ruin our existence.
My 2025 slate contains dreams, but also old frustrations unlocked to give them a second life.
Needless to say, I dream of a huge yoga studio, where hundreds of people practice every day. Where music is made and dancing takes place. A place where we get together to talk, to have a coffee, a cup of tea, where everyone is able to give the other a shoulder to listen to our joys and sorrows, to cry and laugh when it deserves it.
I also ask for 2025, to travel to India; to take a course at Yogagara in Rishikesh. May the people around me complete the projects they are working on and fulfil their most beautiful wishes. That makes me so happy, is that every goal that each one of them achieves feels like mine; and I celebrate it as an achievement that I have been waiting for all my life.
I wish that the crises suffered by our peoples may begin to turn into abundance and freedom, into beauty and construction, into hope. I also pray that each and every person who has been prevented from carrying out a project because of a lack of resources, freedom and support, will be able to find a way to fulfil what their abilities allow them to do.
I want merit and truth to take hold of our society. I want to see a return to the value of the pledged word, to trust in work, in punctuality. I want to live in an organised society where bureaucracy and corruption are so rare that it would be a shameful scandal.
2025, I only ask you for a hug; the rest is on the board...
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