We find ourselves at the gates of summer. Once again, we will live – allow ourselves to live – in accordance with the cyclical changes of Nature. However, instead of tearing off calendar pages or counting the days that pass almost unnoticed, it is important to be aware of every moment we live.
Summer is a very special moment. Hundreds of ideas, poetic and traditional, advertising and ordinary, have caused this season to lose much of its deep meaning.
Currently, the most prevalent understanding is that summer is a time for rest, but these holidays are not just for relaxation. It seems that the soul rests, while the body becomes as active as possible in what is most natural and instinctive to it. Images in newspapers, in the cinema, on street billboards, show us a summer filled with swimsuits, exciting exotic drinks, psychedelic music, wind in our hair, and a state of general carefreeness and lack of seriousness.
On other, more subtle levels, summer is a period of true rest and rejuvenation. grateful and full expression. Such ripe fruit symbolizes a mature and serious person who rests after hard work throughout the year.
And now we, small particles carried by the winds of events and trends, wonder: are the seasons randomly distributed within the year, or do these cycles hold something deeper that is the true language of Nature?
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Summer truly smells of maturity, of a complete and successful expression of life, and it encourages us to feel the same way, in a game of harmonization that is hard to escape.
So, it is not about escaping the influence of Nature. On the contrary, we should feel mature, complete, filled with the energy of the Sun and live this summer period wisely. But it is not only the body that needs rest; it is not only the body that should feel this fullness; let the inner self also become summer, filled and rested from everyday problems.
Rest does not depend on music, drinks, a new fashion, proximity to the sea or mountains (although many of these elements can help). For Rest is a change of activity for a person.
If we feel overwhelmed by routine and mechanical work throughout the year, we take a break from them and come back refreshed with creativity: new books, different conversations, a different daily schedule, different streets to pass along the same path.
If daily monotony has kept our consciousness at the level of the body for many months, we can renew our soul with the energy of summer. It is the right moment to return to the old question: who am I, where do I come from, where am I going? The answers lie in the mature clarity of summer, which the dark silence of winter does not allow us to see.
Continuous activity is a law within us. It is pointless to dream of a romantic vacation where we don’t do absolutely anything because we cannot achieve anything through inactivity. If we don’t work with our hands, we work with our minds; if we don’t think, then we feel – and all of these activities equally tire us out.
In order to rest, we need to tire ourselves first. In order to stop seeking, we need to find first. Does this truly mean Oh, are we all getting tired because we’re trying to find ourselves? Isn’t it then a good time to, by changing our activities, embark on the quest for maturity that summer suggests, which is called evolution in humans?