What Has To Come Back, Will Come Back, In Other Ways And At Another Time

In the end, there comes a moment in life in which one learns to let go of certain dreams, certain friendships and some loves that at one point meant everything. However, we do it knowing that  what has to return will do so in other ways, with other faces, with other more sincere smiles and with new winds capable of restarting us one, ten and a thousand times.

It is curious how the world of children’s literature sometimes offers us wonderful lessons for personal growth that would be worth taking more into account. An example of this we have in “The Wizard of Oz” by Lyman Frank Baum. In this unforgettable piece of literature we meet a young girl who, dragged by a powerful tornado, reaches a strange and unknown world.

Since Dorothy arrives in the world of Oz, she has only longed for one thing: to return home. Little by little, her initial fear of this new and terrifying situation diminishes thanks to her new and unique friends, her silver shoes and a very specific goal: to reach the wizard of OZ to ask him to return her home. To do this, all you have to do is follow the yellow brick road.

Thus, and at the end of so many adventures and misadventures, the young protagonist discovers that in reality, the power to return home had always been there, inside her. However, this fascinating journey turns out to be the key to awakening one by one their personal strengths and that unparalleled courage that we also guard in some corner of our being.

Losing ourselves, getting away from our usual ways is not as bad as it may seem at first. Letting go of certain things, certain people, projects, dreams, and ambitions is also no fatality. Because in the end, what counts are the steps and everything learned. Only in this way will we allow what has to come to come back in due course, while we advance along that yellow brick road that is our own personal growth – or even that “golden path” that Buddhism tells us about.

What has to return will do so in its time and in its place, in the meantime we will move on

Andrea is an engineer. It has created a sophisticated and original transport for pets that adapts to the back seats of cars, guaranteeing the total safety and comfort of pets. Every time he presents his project to a businessman, he explains that, with his proposal, the lives of countless animals that now die in traffic accidents because they are not protected would be saved.

So far only one person has been interested in Andrea’s idea, but after that first “yes”, the company has backed down, justifying that it did not see it profitable. However, our protagonist has not collapsed. He has not given up nor has he allowed a single of his illusions to collapse. Andrea understands that she must continue working, she has told herself that perhaps she should innovate in other cheaper materials, but equally safe, perhaps she should open up to other markets, present her idea abroad …

He knows that the opportunities will return, but they will do it in his time and in his place. He is fully confident that more people and organizations will be attracted to his project and therefore does not allow a single day to invest time, ideas and efforts in its purpose. Most likely, this young engineer will succeed sooner or later because, as the philosopher José Antonio Marina tells us, talent is intelligence in action, and although sometimes we believe that all is lost, the yellow brick road is always there. … In front of us.

Losing, receiving a negative answer, failing, tripping over the same stone three times or even falling in love with the least suitable person in the world, has its purpose: to assume an apprenticeship. Even more, all these bumps in the road are equivalent to having to forcibly improve our vital purposes, because after the “tornado” comes calm and the obligation to weave a personal goal much more beautiful, more dignified, stronger and above all resistant.

Sooner or later the opportunities will return and when they do, we will be perfectly prepared.

Dorothy’s shoes represented the “silver thread” of spiritual growth. It is the link through which we acquire a clearer vision of things and of our own identity to achieve wisdom. To understand that life is a journey in which we gain and lose things, where nothing is permanent and where everything that reaches us is an exclusive gift that we know how to take advantage of.