Life without grace, when we lose the shine of who we are.

Luciana Alves
3 min readAug 30, 2022

We stop asking questions, we think we have all the answers. When we don’t speak up for any reason, when we stop praising, speaking the truth. If we give up, on our life, our dreams, then life becomes “tasteless”, without seasoning, a mediocre journey. Boring just for being…!

When we take comfort in fitting in so that others feel comfortable with what we demonstrate. It can take a long time or just bad facts and we gradually lose strength, the sparkle in our eyes due to the novelty. And getting into this state of denial of what is happening, you end up changing your routine, orienting yourself by what others are watching, even posting on social media. We unintentionally alter our habits and hobbies and are left not knowing, on any given Sunday night, exactly at what point we lost our first look at life.

Our mind can create traps sometimes, especially when we doubt our abilities. And doubting, saddening ourselves, we forget our qualities, doubts can be good as curiosity, growth, but bad when they paralyze us. In front of the people around us, we can appear a little dull or out of touch with our dreams, and it is not easy to understand what has been happening without a distance and a rational perception of our attitudes and idealizations.

An example of denial can be like turning your back on those who are good to you, who considers you, it’s like denying yourself, a way of not valuing yourself, taking your own shine, unnecessarily demotivating. Placing the blame on others instead of taking responsibility for your own actions and consequences is also a way of forgetting, putting yourself off for later, lying to yourself and pretending that everything is fine.

These small actions, in addition to making us static as human beings, leave us immature, unprepared, without the courage to make our legitimate desires real, forgetting that the most important thing in this life is in fact the so-called cliché happiness.

Does what we like in our lives, what we want in the long run, correspond to reality? Is what we do in line with our principles? Does our effort match what we like to work on? Ideas, thoughts, plans. Thus arise the effects of our will and the facts, which actually occur. Deep down, we want our wishes to be fulfilled. But would what we think would be our future actions? Or at least equate to our ideals of life?

We have to be careful not to lose our essence as a human being. What we really are on this planet, what our function is sometimes that we forget to just be the basics. So much technology, so many ideas to live better, our reasoning gives us great things, but we also forget that we are made to relate, to live, grow and end.

They are cycles and it is part of being just living beings to reach our fullness. We heal from everything and we almost always forget that we are alone, but in groups we contemplate ourselves, that breathing fresh air is always good, silence brings us peace and, like the ego, sadness is not the best way.

In the pursuit of perfection, not always perceived, we deal with situations that are not part of us. Not always with the best answer on the tip of the tongue, not always managing to separate the emotional from the professional environment.

We forget at various times that some defects that strengthen us are part of our personality, and taking that away from each one is like putting together a mass production of people.

Losing ourselves is losing our glow, the reason we are connected. It’s like a night sky without the stars, an emptiness!

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Luciana Alves

I am an eternal learner of life, I love being able to help, creating solutions. Enthusiastic about collaboration, I seek the scientific and human point of view.