I posted this first a few years ago. Every line is wonderful: My soul is in a hurry by Pedro Salinas I counted my years and discovered that I have less time to live from now on than I have lived so far ... I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets; The first ones he ate with pleasure, but, when he realized that few were left, he began to savour the rest more deeply. I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations a

Actually, I dont really need to write anything else Why do I care? The answer? Because I want everybody to be happy It’s really unrealistic, but I want all the same For me, happiness really means contentedness. Being content with life how it is And that means being authentic Being open and honest Which is really hard, because it means we assume everybody else is being authentic open and honest And if they aren’t able to be like that, for whatever reason, we get knocked down T

It’s been raining all day today, and we desperately need the rain But it’s still raining. And I still wish it wasn’t! It’s funny because life’s a bit like that We have time when everything’s going okay, and we don’t sort a notice it Then we have difficult times And gosh, do we notice them! But if it wasn’t for the hard bits, perhaps we wouldn’t appreciate the good bits That’s a hard thing to write because none of us want the bad bits I try to think of there being a lesson in

So now it’s over a year since I posted anything - sorry! It’s been a challenging year I thought someone was going to be in my life forever, but it turned out that I never really knew them They’ve been playing a game for at least a year and a half And a few weeks ago, it all became completely clear This stuff hurts It really hurts Not because I need someone new in my life. Or even someone that I’ve known for a while But because we think we know someone and then suddenly they l

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My soul is in a hurry by Pedro Salinas I counted my years and discovered that I have less time to live from now on than I have lived so...

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