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If I could live again my life, In the next one – I’d try to make more mistakes, I wouldn’t try to be so perfect, I’d be more relaxed, I’d be sillier than
by willhf 16y ago
If I could live again my life,
In the next one – I’d try to make more mistakes,
I wouldn’t try to be so perfect, I’d be more relaxed,
I’d be sillier than I’ve been,
In fact, I’d take things much less seriously.
I’d be less hygenic.
I’d run more risks,
take more trips,
watch more sunsets.
I’d climb more mountains, swim more rivers,
I’d go to many more places where I’ve never been,
I’d eat more ice cream and fewer peas,
I’d have more real problems and fewer imaginary ones.
I was one of those people who lived
prudently and fully every minute of his life;
of course I had moments of joy.
But if I could go back I’d try
to have only good moments.
Because if you don’t know, thats what life is made of,
only moments; don’t lose the now.
I was the type who never went anywhere
without a thermometer,
a hot-water bottle,
an umbrella and a parachute,
If I could live again, I’d travel lighter.
If I could live again, I’d go barefoot
from the beginning of spring
and stay barefoot until the end of autumn.
I’d ride in more carts,
I’d watch more sunrises,
and play with more children,
If I had another life ahead of me.
But now I am 85…
and I know that I am dying.
- meinhimmel 16y agoIn the end of every person's life the one thing they'll have, no matter what, are the memories that they've made throughout their life.
- joshhart 16y agoUnfortunately, that's not the case. Watching someone and his family suffer through Alzheimer's is really tough.
- meinhimmel 16y agoIt's not always the case, but I believe it is in the majority of situations it is. I'm deeply sorry for what you went through though. Tough does not even begin to describe the utter destruction that Alzheimer puts a family through. My ex-girlfriend's father went through that. I can't easily put into words the absolute despair I felt watching him fade away from an outsider's perspective. I cannot, and hope I never can, imagine how she felt.
- dporan 16y agoThe author of that appears to be Jose Luis Borges: http://books.google.com/books?ei=zvzWTNPpKsT_nAf7j7DpCQ&ct=result&id=uPFIAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22I+was+one+of+those+who+never+went+anywhere+without+a+thermometer%22+borges&q=%22I+was+one+of+those+who+never+went+anywhere+without+a+thermometer%22#search_anchor http://books.google.com/books?ei=zvzWTNPpKsT_nAf7j7DpCQ&...
- anatoly 16y agoIt's often misattributed to Borges. It was written (in prose) by columnist Don Herold in 1953 for the _Reader's Digest_. Since then it underwent several changes, has been attributed to several authors, was broken into a verse form, was translated to Spanish, acquired a Spanish title, "Instantes", was then re-translated back into English often retaining the Spanish title... It's lived a long and colorful life. But Borges didn't write it. There's a detailed study of this poem's history at http://www.borges.pitt.edu/bsol/iainst.php http://www.borges.pitt.edu/bsol/iainst.php. It's in Spanish, but Google Translate can give you the gist of it in English.