To live is to die.

"When a man lies he murders
Some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which
Men miscall their lives
All this i cannot bear
To witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation
Take me home."

Clifford Lee Burton (1962-1986)

lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2012

A brief letter to my dying future self.





            So many days wasted trying to find the answer, when the answer is that there is no question. Life is what happens between the day of your birth and the day of your dead. Think of it as a parenthesis, you know when it begins and you know its going to end at some point. Knowing that you can fill it with everything you want, but you can not delete what you have already written. Of course you can cross some parts out but everyone will know there was something there and that for some reason you tried to hide it. Yesterday is history, today is reality and tomorrow is a mystery.
            Everyone that's been a part of your life has already gained a space between both brackets. Whether its good or bad, there it is, a tiny piece of your social environment and an insignificant molecule among all the human beings that could be as important but they just didn't get a chance yet. So go outside, not outside of your house but outside of your personal bounds. The comfort zone is not as sure as its seems, its made of bubble paper, once you burst the bubbles its just some useless plastic. A cocoon  you'll leave behind. My point is, if it makes you happy go for it.
            Don't say you'd die for someone, its quite likely that they wouldn't do the same for you. Die happy, beholding what you left behind with a smile on your face. All you need is someone to remember you, someone to keep that parenthesis you've created in "the Big Book of Life" alive.
            But hey, how do I know? I'm just a teenager right? Well, at least I know that if I try to write something like this by the end of my days, and what I would write doesn't differ much from this, I'll die with a smile on my face knowing that I was true to myself my whole life.

-Dani