Right way to live

Is there a right way to live, one that preserves the traditional way and our connection to nature, while engaging with the crypto era, where numbers are making life increasingly impersonal and devoid of emotion?

I remember a time when, as children, we would escape into the woods, and even without phones, we found our way back home. The pinnacle of technology looked like a frozen ice cream cone and a little note from our mother, telling us what we needed from the store—not what we could afford.

Since becoming a parent, I’ve found myself valuing more and more the things that matter for the future—the one our children are heading into. Will we really forget who we are and where we came from? Will friendship on social networks surpass the kind of friendship where you first made your friend a matching paper plane, just so you could play together? Will we replace genuine connection and a firm handshake with digital filters, where we like the idea of who someone might be but never actually meet them?

I once read a quote by an architect: It’s easier to build a road through a rainforest than to find all those whose homes that road has taken away.

To be the architect of your own life means building other lives too, even if some might see those lives as less advanced. And this is the essence of what we are slowly, steadily losing.

Sometimes I observe couples and groups of people spending large sums on dinners, lunches, and social events, yet they seem disconnected, absorbed in their digital reflections on their phones.

We’re forgetting that being part of life means truly living it. And when you live it, you realize you don’t need much—really, just a little.

I’m lucky to live in an environment that constantly reminds me I’m not the pinnacle of evolution, but a part of it. And so I try to give back. Most importantly, I remind myself that wherever you are and whatever you create, it’s not truly yours—it’s just a part of something you’ve improved for everyone. And someone else will take it forward one day.

Last Thursday marked another lap I’ve completed around the sun, so I think I’m entitled to a wish. 
I wish… that my life will have real meaning, and that I’ll improve something, even if it’s by just one percent—not for myself, but for everyone.