Bright Future

Piu avanti!

Do not give up, even defeated,
do not feel a slave, even enslaved;
trembling with fright, think yourself brave,
and assault fiercely, when badly hurt.
Have the tenacity of the rusted nail
that old and ruined, is nail again;
not the coward stupidity of the turkey
that shrinks its feathers at the first noise.
Do like God who never cries;
or like Lucifer, who never prays;
or like the oak grove, that in its greatness
needs water but does not plea...
May it bite and clamor vengeful,
rolling in the dust, your head!

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios"Almafuerte"(1854-1917)

Overcoming barriers

Yes, my favorite poem applies to me today:

If brought to your knees ten times,
you riseanother ten, another hundred, another five hundred:
so violent your falls ought not to be
neither, by logic, so numerous.
With the genial hunger with which the plants
assimilate greedily the humus,
swallowing the resentment of the affronts
were thus shaped the blessed and the saints.
Donkey-like obsession, to be strong, no more needs the newborn,
and in any poor devil I figure that the hooks of luck are dented...
All the incurables have cure five seconds before their death!

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios -- Almafuerte (strong soul)

Hope

Hope... yeah, that's right hope! The best of all feelings is just believe in something or someone. Expecting positive outcomes..all the time. That's the key, being positive, thinking always positive. I am aware of the difficulties and challenges that life present us but also I am the living proof of the good things that come after you learn to overcome barriers and limitations. HOPE never ends.

Time....

Time goes flying... that's for sure!

Once you become aware of time, knowing that with every day that pass, one won't become any younger, life starts having a totally different meaning. When I was a child, long-term planning was reasonable for everything but when you turn more than 30 future is a big issue and time is the key.. How can we be sure of our own decisions?