Being strong to be useful...

Parkour taught me to take risks, not to limit myself to new ideas, when I first heard that word and what it was, I thought, who could do such madness? Now I'm thinking the opposite. Who wouldn't dare try?

Many times we are asked if we have no fears when jumping, the answer is yes and no,
who hasn't been through it that he feels physically and mentally prepared for something and even though he knows he can do it, he feels that tingling inside that's holding us back, we often hide from our own light, It is not the fear of trying that holds us back, but the fear of failure, because we feel helpless when we do something wrong and no one likes that, we are facing an obstacle, either mental or physical (although I consider everyone to be mental) the first thing we do is fill our minds with doubts, focusing more on failure than victory and since we see ourselves as failures, that's how we end up being defeated.

That is why we must erase all doubt from the mind, as they are projections for the future, a future that does not yet exist, but if you focus your desires and strength on them, you are only feeding your fears and therefore your failure rate increases.

In the years I've been sharing in the world of parkour, I have had the opportunity to see how the philosophy of the same has changed the lives of many people (including myself),practitioners as well as those who do not, in a way it's like Buddhism, which is not a religion, but a lifestyle created by Buddha, You don't need to be a monk to use Buddhism in your life, Likewise, you do not need to jump over physical obstacles to use the parkour philosophy in your daily life.

If you set out to get out of your comfort zone, breaking the paradigms you live with, you'll be on your way to being a freer, more authentic person, as you open up that social bubble that many of us are locked up in, for the sole purpose of fulfilling a social stereotype, to fit into a supposedly "functional" society. Which only judges you, when in fact she is the one who is full of the biggest flaws.

This reminds me of a phrase said by one of my favorite philosophers, Diogenes de Sinope or "Diogenes the Dog" as he was nicknamed then, when he was expelled from his homeland for having swindled the coins, People asked him what he thought about it, which he just answered "They condemn me to exile, I condemn them to stay."

If you read his biography, it's true that he led an authentic life, or as we say in Venezuela "without a word of mouth" was freed from all these social conditions, even though many people called him crazy, as well as us who practice this sport, yet many admired him, however, including Alexander the Great himself.

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This post is the English translation of my previous publication, it's all content is my authority, I apologize for the translation errors, I'm not good with English.

Link to my previous posts, in English

• https://steemit.com/photography/@samuel-film/how-to-improve-your-photos-using-the-lines

• https://steemit.com/life/@samuel-film/the-end-of-a-stage-that-brought-us-together-will-keep-us-that-way-for-a-long-time

• https://steemit.com/life/@samuel-film/freerunning-in-the-beach-part2-nawpro

• https://steemit.com/photography/@samuel-film/how-to-play-correctly-with-the-law-of-the-horizon

• https://steemit.com/photography/@samuel-film/how-to-take-pictures-backlighting-and-not-die-in-the-attempt