Emiliano Mancilla

I wake up at 7:00 just to get dressed and arrive on time, to feel at least a little bit proud of myself by scoring in the Saturday morning league. There are only 3 possible results after every match. 

• If I score more goals than anyone does, it is a perfect day, good news. 
• If someone else leads the counting but I manage to score, it doesn’t feel good at all but at least I know I did my job. 
• If I fail to score, nightmare. 

After the match, I return home and get ready for a reunion, they are old friends and there won’t be a lot of people, so I decide to go in my oldest pants, after all I won’t be hitting on anybody this time, and the day is little by little taking form, and I start to think and remember some phrases. 

Because it seems like the world we live in and confront every day is not made of objects but potential, possibility, of what could be. Therefore, if the world is being, and reality is a field of potential, small decisions start to take relevance in every aspect of our lives, and I’m sure I always knew this, but the simplest things get lost and forgotten more often, I’m sure I always knew that even the absence of action is a decision. 

However, deciding what to do with our reality is not an easy task, is hard to decide what to write about in my next text, hard to pick the perfect pants, hard to choose to shot or pass, and those things are no joke. 

Maybe that is what is great about schools and jobs, you don’t have to worry about anything, your life is already scheduled, someone else took the difficult task and did it for you. Because today we have so much freedom and so many possibilities that we tend to end up doing nothing, just like that time I didn´t watch anything because of Netflix extensive catalog. 

The funny thing is that this will inspire me to do something for 72 hours and after that, I will be floating through existence for another 3 months.