Last week I spoke to a friend who works at a construction company. Interestingly and due to some personal technical questions, the topic of the master beams came up and gave me food for thought. I explain. He taught me that if we were going to make a modification at home, we should respect these beams. For those who are not adept like me on these issues, the master beams are those that "serve to support other beams, as well as to support upper bodies of the building." That is, if we want to do some work in a house, we could touch some ... but it was clear to me that we would be very crazy if we allowed the house to be supported by just one or a couple of them.
Well, it made me think that life is a bit of that. We all need certain stable and indispensable points in our life; points to which we can lean if we want to continue standing when our surroundings falter or change. Master beams are normally represented by: family, work, friends and leisure. But each one has to be clear about which ones are theirs. Perhaps another person removes one of the aforementioned and includes spirituality, for example.
Usually problems arise when, for whatever reason, our beams are affected simultaneously. Sometimes this is fortuitous, but on many other occasions, we make drastic changes in important parts of our lives simultaneously. The stress of dealing with the imbalance of all our girders is tremendous. Other times, we do not perform or neglect the relevant reviews. Little by little we stopped going out, enjoying the day to day and the present moment, taking a walk with our family, a glass of wine with a friend, our hobbies ...
Respect the master beams of your life because they are what sustain you and take care of them.
Maria Jose Ortega