There are many ways of being with others...

There are several things pending at home, but we're making an effort to move forward. There's a lot at stake. In my country, we don't have the freedom our forefathers claimed to have given us. Instead, things are now more fragmented than ever, with leaders capable of inflicting severe consequences if we don't follow them. This is because they've identified within us those elements where we can collectively fail and ruin our progress. Being in my country means giving a portion of my effort to these leaders, as if it were a kind of tribute for living. This comes at a price in various forms, and the one I've found is through the control of my body, but not my spirit, to establish contexts. It's a fierce game where psychological strategies are sidelined. The winner is the one who manages to keep their people in the greatest need according to the collectively approved norms, and to the extent that these norms aren't followed, they also become a source of harm and alienation from others. To be in my homeland, integration comes through what most closely resembles the ideal profile of a citizen, which, unfortunately, is not one who fully adheres to the law. However, it is the law itself, and its reinforcement, that allows for the spirit of individuality as well as its maintenance through diverse forms. This reinforcement is consistent within a specific context, allowing the law to be applied as a guide, according to the particular case being contextualized. This is not an easy path, but at least something is achieved, and now more than ever, time is needed for diverse expressions through the arts: the creation of texts, as a means of giving form to our ideas, is what allows us to rise to the occasion. Through this distance that draws us closer, because we exercise our principles, the law itself, through our history in interaction with our context, and thus we achieve progress, which is nothing more than the reflection we can achieve and which relies on a specific path within society.

I have been searching for these core principles for a long time, and now I have found them. I am witnessing fantastic leaders now, whose role is purely representative, not coercive, where teamwork truly prevails within the team. There's no such thing as one person being at the mercy of another—not at all—but rather a combination of individual strengths and resources. Each person contributes their own strengths to the others, where the key is moving forward by resolving the coordination needed in the present, addressing the circumstances that currently obscure the future. It starts one step at a time, which is constructed, and whose length is the measure of the resolution. However, the speed or slowness is something external to us, since the resolution itself matters, and what it allows for the next step, which also adheres to the necessary coordination. Nevertheless, the issue is never about forms, about making this a specific format, not at all. Rather, the resolutions are what create the format; that is, it's merely descriptive.

I fear that not many people understand this and operate with the notion of a leader according to a coercive authority and through unjustified monitoring. My neighbor achieves precisely the opposite, since her proposals, while indeed selfish, are always thoroughly considered. She is very skilled at fostering well-being, always encouraging those under her command to feel inspired and free. However, rules are meant to be followed, and she adheres to them. She is somewhat high-strung, but I feel she possesses splendid potential when it comes to nurturing others, especially given the current state of our country.

I acted as a leader in my boss's company, but his insistence on making me act in a way that pleased him made me feel bound to him, without freedom. My principles were not respected, and he restricted me due to his own weaknesses. I felt I could only move about the world according to his tolerance, making it impossible for me to maintain a relationship with him. I don't expect him to ever acknowledge the cause of my loss, or at least I have some idea, because his purpose in life is precisely to deny the facts and make others pick up the pieces of his mess, acting like a child once did, managing to get those who feel desperate to follow him in exchange for a glimmer of hope and support. However, he manipulates this through that uncertainty of maybe, maybe, all according to his plans. He's a scoundrel who always tried to twist everything to his own version, trying to ensure that nothing could be said about it, nothing more.

My boss is the worst human being I know, from every point of view. I don't want to see him at all, because I feel he only acts to keep everyone else under his thumb. That's why everyone in the office stands up for themselves and distances themselves from him. He absolutely hates scandals, and it's through them that he avoids them, because it's clear he's seeking power.

Now, within the company, I'm in charge of a young woman who likes to keep everyone at a certain distance, making them always at her mercy in terms of social interaction, but not professional interaction. This allows her to adhere to social protocols of friendliness and thus gain access to potential favors. For my part, I cling to the spiritual aspect, fostering an atmosphere where everyone feels welcome, with hugs and a warmth that expresses our commitment to safeguarding everyone's well-being. This is not the case with her, as she is quite disruptive, enjoying making her mark by any means necessary, taking advantage of her status as a lady and the fear she instills in others. She tries to establish herself among them by denouncing her rejection, which, in my case, initially, she didn't do. Instead, she offered a charming, attractive smile, trying to get me to give in somehow, thus placing me at her mercy. It was in response to this that I reacted, going straight for her, with a determined approach, always managing to remove every obstacle she placed in her way. I accepted her invitation into her life, but not partially, as she had previously tried to do with me and others, which is why I was treated with distance and contempt. Fortunately, now, her spirit of genuine connection allows for the eradication of that treatment, enabling me to ask questions that expose it. My friend and I form a well-established group, in the sense that she operates from her interactions with others within the material world, and I from my interactions with others within the spiritual realm. Our approach is essentially concrete, without many words, given that we rely on different languages, but with the same goal: to achieve openness from people by establishing a relationship that the collective demands be respected, in order to prevent the breakdown of oneself and, therefore, to demonstrate to the group that such modus operandi is not welcome.

She never expected me to be so persistent with her, that my spirit of commitment would continue until the very end. She thought I had no limits either. Indeed, we both agreed on this, and we arrived exhausted from the process of asserting our spirit before each other and, therefore, from wanting to stay together, because we loved sharing with each other, for no other reason than that in the other there is what we reject, and it is time to welcome it. Indeed, it is a way of showing others, because that is what it translates into, that such a spirit of ours does not arise from the rejection of the spirit of the other, but rather embraces it, thus allowing that diversity, including the opposite, is worthy of our treatment, preventing reprisals because the majority operate between both extremes, while we, on the other hand, are the extremes and expanding.

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