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If I could live again my life,
In the next - I'll try,- to make more mistakes,I won't try to be so perfect,I'll be more relaxed,I'll be more full - than I am now,In fact, I'll take fewer things seriously,I'll be less hygenic,I'll take more risks,I'll take more trips,I'll watch more sunsets,I'll climb more mountains,I'll swim more rivers,I'll go to more places - I've never been,I'll eat more ice creams and less (lime) beans,I'll have more real problems - and less imaginaryones,I was one of those people who liveprudent and prolific lives -each minute of his life,Of course that I had moments of joy - but,if I could go back I'll try to have only good moments,If you don't know - thats what life is made of,Don't lose the now!I was one of those who never goes anywherewithout a thermometer,without a hot-water bottle,and without an umberella and without a parachute,If I could live again - I will travel light,If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feetat the beginning of spring tillthe end of autumn,I'll ride more carts,I'll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,- and I know that I am dying ...
Jorge Luis Borges
(the poem on the wall of the former Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktaş...)
If I could live again my life,
In the next - I'll try,- to make more mistakes,I won't try to be so perfect,I'll be more relaxed,I'll be more full - than I am now,In fact, I'll take fewer things seriously,I'll be less hygenic,I'll take more risks,I'll take more trips,I'll watch more sunsets,I'll climb more mountains,I'll swim more rivers,I'll go to more places - I've never been,I'll eat more ice creams and less (lime) beans,I'll have more real problems - and less imaginaryones,I was one of those people who liveprudent and prolific lives -each minute of his life,Of course that I had moments of joy - but,if I could go back I'll try to have only good moments,If you don't know - thats what life is made of,Don't lose the now!I was one of those who never goes anywherewithout a thermometer,without a hot-water bottle,and without an umberella and without a parachute,If I could live again - I will travel light,If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feetat the beginning of spring tillthe end of autumn,I'll ride more carts,I'll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,- and I know that I am dying ...
Jorge Luis Borges
(the poem on the wall of the former Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktaş...)
