If

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

CÂND MAREA...

Când marea turbează de valuri împinsă

Şi-şi scutură coama de spume şi vânt,

Când nori-alung ziua din lumea cea plânsă,

Când tunete cânt;

Atunci printre nouri, prin vânt şi prin unde

O rază de aur se toarce uşor

Şi-n fundul sălbatec al mărei pătrunde

Prin vânt şi prin nor.

Ce caută raza din ceruri venită,

Din galbena steauă ce-aleargă prin cer,

Ce caută-n mare, în noaptea-i cernită

Und-razele pier?

În fundul cel umed al mărei turbate,

În lumea-i noptoasă, în sânu-i de-amar,

Luceşte o steauă în piatră schimbată,

În mărgăritar.

E-amantul a stelei ce palidă trece

Şi-aruncă prin nori a ei rază de nea,

E-amantul căzut dintre stele, ce rece

În mare murea.

remember

that the thing that makes us peacefull and happy is staying true to ourselves.

Asumare

Este foarte dificil sa ai curajul sa fii tu insuti si sa te privesti - de unul singur - in toata splendoarea dezamagirii. Si sa intelegi ca, oricat de providentiala ti-ar parea intalnirea unui om, oricat de puternica e sau a ramas emotia dintre voi, realitatea se schimba. Iar lucrurile omenesti sunt, pe cat de frumoase si tumultoase, pe atat de trecatoare.

de ce eu?

pentru ca intelegi. pentru ca esti o combinatie de sensibilitate, masculinitate ascunsa in jocuri si ai un rafinament al simtirii. pentru imaginatie.

don't

it's raining in HK...and for the first time, three days ago, I felt the smell of rain here, outside the city's walls, in my little rainy world...

it was something that i said, or didn't said this time,
i don't know if it's me or you.
...
i thought the time was on our side...
...
we can make this last forever
so please, don't stop the rain...

Thinking of her

Memories of her...
Those lyrics, oh...

It’s your beauty that betrays you 
Your smile gives you away. 
Cause you’re made of strength and mercy 
And my soul is yours to save 
I know this much is true 
When my world was dark and blue 
I know the only one who rescued me was you 

Close your eyes 
Let me tell you all the reasons why 
You’re never going to have to cry 
Because you’re one of a kind 
Yeah, here’s to you 
The one that always pulls us through 
You always do what you got to do, baby 
Because you’re one of a kind.