Today I am moved by a deep sense of gratitude with life and with the circumstances I have had to live through, until I reach the point where I am now, and I can say with certainty that everything I have experienced has brought me to where I am. If we reflect on the number of times we complain and feel depressed about the things we experience on a daily basis, we will realise that little by little we are becoming robotic beings, driven by an imperative need to fulfil expectations that others have created and sown in us.

So we must ask ourselves, are we really doing what we want to do, or simply what others expect of us? A few years ago I used to live like that, pleasing everyone around me, my parents, siblings, friends, partner and I put myself aside, my desires and everything I longed for was always behind what they wanted. In a way, I felt like a spectator of my own life, I didn’t do anything that contravened the rule so to speak and I lived according to the desires or the idea of what I should be that others had.

Obviously, you can’t keep constant pressure on your back and not resent this in some way, so I started to suffer from anxiety and depression, at some point I never felt enough, I was always underestimating myself and undermining my own identity. However, one day I came across a philosophy of life called Krishna Consciousness, which helped me realise that not everything we do should be driven by a desire to please others, but rather to understand that everything in this life is temporary and illusory.