{"id":60332,"date":"2026-09-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=60332"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:21:46","slug":"magic-by-miriam-lafuente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/magia-firma-miriam-lafuente\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite songs is called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1ZoHfJZACA\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1ZoHfJZACA\">Wonderful Life<\/a>\u201d, by Black, and it says that there's magic everywhere you look. There are people who go through life without realizing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was volunteering at a hospital. One morning, I found myself standing next to the bed of a woman in her seventies who was lamenting her life\u2014not her present life, but her past. Confined to her bed, she was reflecting on her life and, without realizing it, venting her complaints aloud so that everyone could hear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It struck me deeply, and at the same time, I was overcome with a great sadness, because there was no solution to any of the things he lamented. He said he had spent his entire life on his feet, behind the counter of a tobacco shop, working harder than he should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman felt as though she had lived too little or had failed to make certain decisions (as St. Teresa of \u00c1vila said). One day she realized it: she woke up, saw, and came to the realization that there is only one life, but, swept along by inertia, she had done what she had to do, letting herself be carried along by the current. Why hadn\u2019t she realized it sooner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/focus\/learning-life-fulton-sheen\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"58661\">life <\/a>There aren't always major dramas or crises; sometimes it's just a feeling of being there, but not quite being there. We want what we're supposed to want; we study the major we're supposed to study, and that's how our days go by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We go with the flow of life, which sweeps us along because that's what's expected of us. That momentum leads us to put off the things that truly matter to us, because we believe it's not the right time to deal with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is an inauthentic, unfulfilling existence in which one forgets oneself. Not because it is necessarily bad, but because we haven\u2019t stopped to think about whether we might want something more out of life. When we live like this, we aren\u2019t living our own lives\u2014we\u2019re simply going through the motions, missing out on the moments of magic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Una de mis canciones favoritas se titula \u201cWonderful Life\u201d, de Black, y dice que hay magia dondequiera que mires. Hay personas que viven sin darse cuenta. Hac\u00eda voluntariado en un hospital. Una ma\u00f1ana me encontr\u00e9 junto a la cama de una se\u00f1ora de unos setenta a\u00f1os que se lamentaba de su vida, no de la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3033,"featured_media":60335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Magia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"En nuestra vida no siempre hay grandes dramas ni crisis; a veces todo es una sensaci\u00f3n de estar, pero sin estar del todo.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/signatures\/magic-by-miriam-lafuente\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"En nuestra vida no siempre hay grandes dramas ni crisis; 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