Ready for a bath, by Carlos Luksic

I HAVE LEARNED

I have learned that I cannot make someone to love me,
but simply become someone who can be loved.
The rest depend on the others.

I have learned that years could be required to create the confidence,
and single seconds to destroy it.

I have learned that what really counts in life,
is not the things I have around, but the people.

I have learned that I cannot be compared with the best things others do,
but with the best things than I can do.

I have learned that the most important is not what happens to me,
but what I do on the matter.

I have learned that there are things that I can do
in just a single moment,
that can cause pain all the rest of a lifetime.

I have learned that I can arrive much farther away from which I thought possible.

I have learned that I am responsible for what I do,
regardless of the feelings I have.

I have learned that if I do not control my attitudes,
they control me.

I have learned that the heroes are the people who do that
of which they are convinced, in spite of the consequences.

I have learned that the money is a lousy indicator
of the value of something or somebody.

I have learned that sometimes I have the right to be angered,
but not the one of being cruel.

I have learned that the true love and the true friendship,
will continue growing in spite of the distances.

I have learned that whatever great is my duel,
the world does not stop by my pain.

I have learned that while my antecedents and circumstances
can have influenced in which I am,
I am the person in charge from which I get to be.

I have learned that two people can watch the same thing
and see something totally different.

I have learned that independently of the circumstances,
when I am honest with myself, I arrive farther more in life.

I have learned that many things can be generated by the mind,
the trick is the self-control.

I have learned that writing or speaking,
alleviates the emotional pains.

I have learned that the paradigm in which we live,
is the only option we have.

I have learned that is important to practice, in order to become
the person I want to be.

I have learned that it is much easier to react than to think…
and more satisfactory to think than to react.