How Big Is the World?
One day I read a book that said we only have two things to learn. "First, the world is a very big place. Second, we should become every day bigger, so that the world can come in". It was Agostinho da Silva who wrote this, a Portuguese philosopher. Somehow, to me, until now, no sentence translated better what I consider love: universal or intimate. But is not all love universal? And is not universal love, after all, an intimate relationship with the world? And is not that relationship with the world what, after all, is going to dictate our personal ones?
How is my relationship with the world? How is your relationship with the world?
Do we realize, every day, how big the world is? And if we did, would life be a better thing? Well, if at the same time we had food, because, as Dostoevsky says in "Poor People", "What is honor, my dear, when you have nothing to eat?"
But, speaking generally, if politicians realized the world is really a big place, wouldn't there be food all around the world and wouldn't people be happier and with more time to think? Don't we have to think about external politics?
Now, about us, our little and personal world, if we really realized the world is a big place, wouldn't we be happier, wouldn't we minimize a lot of things that we consider problems?
If we really realized how big the world is would we also understand how big the people around us are?
But probably, if we really had realized how big the world is, we would already be big enough to not have problems and the world would be a paradise, right?
But, can't it be?
Is that impossible?