What if the happiness Wasn’t it a great feat, a great peak to climb or a great goal to achieve? What if you had it in your hands, but by looking up, you were missing it? «I can’t wait,» we all say as we run to achieve what we have been told we have to achieve. A better job, more money, a bigger house, a more defined body, a more luxurious life, longer vacations. More, more and more.

But it is precisely when we look to the top, when we look at who seems to have it all, when we discover that happiness had been there, on the living room table, all that time. It was him coffee that you drink without haste in the morning, the chat with that friend of a lifetime, the hug from your children before going to sleep and the advice from your parents. Happiness was there, in the small daily things, and that is what Ana Belén, at 74 years old, claims to have discovered about life.

The happiness of small things

«There are many things we live with daily that are small. They surround us, it’s about attitudes and emotions«explains the singer and actress in an interview for Canary Islands 7. These simple things, he continues, «we take for granted,» which makes us barely enjoy them.

However, «when we stop to think, those little things are what generate happiness,» Ana Belén confesses to having discovered. «We don’t usually pay attention to them, but they are what make us feel love, pleasure, emotion. We should be grateful for those little things, because they are what shape life, life writ large.»

That this is said by a woman who has been conquering stages for 60 years is undoubtedly definitive proof that no, happiness was not in success. I was in passion, in love and gratitude, in emotions that escape us every day due to not paying enough attention.

Continue living with passion

The passage of time not only teaches us great lessons, it also changes the rules of the game. We age, whether we like it or not. That is why Ana Belén, who celebrates her 74th birthday this year, is clear about what success means to her. «The success is that I still have that same passion from the beginning,» He assured in an interview for Intermediate. «I am lucky to continue connecting,» he confessed.

That doesn’t mean that the passage of time doesn’t scare her.. «Everything scares me,» said the Madrid interpreter, who confesses to being scared by nature. But fight those fears. «I have to do an exercise in the morning of ‘well, I’ve read this, I’ve heard this, but come on, let’s go.’ I have to do a lot of mindset work.»

It also has a powerful ace up its sleeve, one that we must all cultivate throughout life if we want to reach its final stretch with an infinite well of happiness. «What gives me strength is having a core of people who I consider very intelligent, who I like to listen toto some friends with whom I share many things. All of that gives me strength. «I wouldn’t be capable of many things if I were alone,» says the singer.

The passage of time

For Ana Belén, the passage of time has not diminished the happiness in her life. Because this does not depend on the external, but on the little things. Of those small details that he tells us about in his interviews. However, the passage of time is inevitable, andThe interpreter has explained what this passage of time means to her, how to live it with that positive attitude with which you have always challenged life.

«You look in the mirror every day, and as you look at yourself every day, you are not aware,» explained in the program The Sixth. «When I put on makeup, I say, ‘well, look, you’re fine.’ Well, we’re cheating on time,» she says, laughing.

Although for her the most important thing is to lose sight of the outside and focus on the inside. «I find myself with the same strengthwith the same flame that I have had inside since I was young. I’m even more aware,» says the actress and singer. This is her secret of youth, which makes her look radiant and continue on stage without age being an impediment.

She leaves one more message to her followers, to everyone who wants to hear her and leave behind that sleeping mind that deceives us and gives us false illusions of false dreams, for everyone who is afraid and believes that tomorrow will be worse. «May hope not cease»sings with that voice that all of Spain knows, «I’m not telling you with a song of mine, but with a song of Victor’s,» he points out, mentioning his faithful companion. «May hope not cease.»

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