This is on my desktop at work. It's a brother burying his younger brother. Since then it's been over a year. This picture reminds me how short life is. I knew these brothers from high school and they were very close.I wanted to change the way I looked at life. Be more positive, improve my work ethics, not complain so much and so on. I'm not sure if I've become a better person in the last year. I know my address hasn't changed and that's a good thing. I'm able to live independently.
My mission is still to look at things in a positive way, because after all... I won't be around forever. I want to do the best I can. Be a good person. Be a loyal friend. Be a loving daughter. And be a supportive sister. All of these things will only be difficult if I make it that way.
So I'll keep this picture on my desktop for awhile. Not only will it remind me of him, it will remind me that I don't have that much time to better myself.
This is for you Tom.
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Hello Alex! please check this:
If for an instant God were to forget that I am a rag doll and gifted me with a piece of life, possibly I wouldn't say all that I think, but rather I would think of all that I say.
I would value things, not for their worth but for what they mean. I would sleep little, dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.
I would walk when others hold back, I would wake when others sleep.
I would listen when others talk, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream!
If God were to give me a piece of life, I would dress simply, throw myself face first into the sun, baring not only my body but also my soul.
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
Over the stars I would paint with a Van Gogh dream a Benedetti poem, and a Serrat song would be the serenade I'd offer to the moon. With my tears I would water roses, to feel the pain of their thorns, and the red kiss of their petals...
My God, if I had a piece of life... I wouldn't let a single day pass without telling the people I love that I love them. I would convince each woman and each man that they are my favorites, and I would live in love with love.
I would show men how very wrong they are to think that they cease to be in love when they grow old, not knowing that they grow old when they cease to be in love!
To a child I shall give wings, but I shall let him learn to fly on his own.
I would teach the old that death does not come with old age, but with forgetting. So much have I learned from you, oh men...
I have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of the mountain, without knowing that real happiness is in how it is scaled.
I have learned that when a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever.
I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help the other get to his feet.
From you I have learned so many things, but in truth they won't be of much use, for when I keep them within this suitcase, unhappily shall I be dying.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
it's a letter that GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ wrote for his frierds before he died...
That is a really neat, thanks for that
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