Men don’t need only bread to survive

23/06/2023 Nilson Lattari

Men need bread to feed their bodies. But some men don’t need only bread to live better. They need arts, or look around them to admire life, and often need willpower to enjoy their lives.
Who are those who fall in love, despite ignoring and scorning poets and their poems, and are able to say lovely things? These people consider these poets and their lyrics without importance because they are products created by human weakness. Suddenly, when these people find love, they are able to make promises of love or comparisons of beauty and see the world like a big garden. They can say lovely phrases to their lovers, but they forget that these phrases derive from sad poets speaking about their anguish and melancholy.
They find love or live in ecstasy when love happens. In these moments, all people are equal. Words thought and imagined by sensitive beings like artists are forgotten in lost papers in their drawers or on dusty tables, and in old books. Finally, the ones who never read or saw them recovered their words from poems and pictures despite having forgotten their origins, and try to encourage their hearts using them.
They start to find the beauty of colours when these colours join and forge an image, and it doesn’t abandon them. When love touches them, they see colours and images in their imagination, and their lives are in chaos. Suddenly, they organise their homes or their work table, clothes, and their way of life. There is a perfect combination in life when artists put into their mouths the fine expression of things that they thought, and can mix body and soul.
This vibe passes through them, and they don’t understand anything, but they can elaborate on things that cannot be joined or things that cannot be divided.
Curves and straight lines are responsible for satisfying them to enjoy this strange world in front of them. They find sensuality in the curves of mountains, and their brains try to understand the artists of numbers and words and the uncontrollable designs of architects. How could they say plausible things told by others?
Some men don’t need only bread to live better because their souls don’t need only physical food. Souls survive with the freshness of the world and new ideas and new projects of things they do and things that they don’t do. Even if souls are disappointed, at the same time anguish can enrich people, and after that, souls are ready to help them to reach their futures.
Our souls feed on the energy that comes from others who give us their souls. Our souls feed from moments that we learn and we teach, in this endless flow of time, like blood running fast. In the end, the food for the soul is our history and willpower.

Photo from: Foto de Mae Mu na Unsplash

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