State of mind

If you think you are beaten, you are;

If you think you dare not, you don't.

If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,

It is almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost;

For out in this world we find

Success begins with a person's will

It's all in the state of mind. 

If you think you're outclassed, you are;

You've got to think high to rise.

You've got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win the prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster man;

But sooner or later the person who wins

Is the one who thinks he can!

Walter D. Wintle

Διαπίστωση #20

Κάποτε καποιος μου είπε, οτι γερνώντας, νοιώθεις πως όλος ο κόσμος σου γκρεμίζεται. 

Χάνεις τους γονείς σου.

Φίλους.

Τον σύντροφο σου.

Η μουσική που αγαπάς ειναι κατι που σταματά να γέννα. 

Μένει στο παρελθόν μαζι σου.

Μακριά απ τα νεαρά αυτιά. 

Οι ήρωες και οι προσωπικότητες που αγάπησες ειναι κατι που οι νέοι δεν αναγνωρίζουν.

Και ετσι εχεις ολο και πιο λιγα να μοιραστείς. 

Ολο και πιο πολλά που σου λείπουν.

Κ ετσι η θλίψη γίνεται ο καθημερινός σου σύντροφος. 

Για μένα, υπάρχει και η άλλη οπτική.

Ολ' αυτα ειναι απόδειξη οτι έζησες.

Οτι έγινες κομμάτι των ελαχίστων τυχερών που έστριψαν απ το ποτάμι της ανυπαρξίας.

Αγάπησες, παθιάστηκες, δέθηκες.

Αυτα που σε βαραίνουν ειναι η απόδειξη οτι είχες πράγματα , καταστάσεις, πρόσωπα που σου έδωσαν χαρά.

Και θα τα κουβαλάς μαζι σου μεχρι το τελος. 

Μπορει να ειναι θλιβερό οτι τα έχασες, αλλα ειναι προνόμιο οτι τα είχες. 

Καλό ταξίδι Νιόνιο και ευχαριστούμε. 

Να δώσεις χαιρετίσματα στο Λαυρέντη.

To you (mou)

Welcome to life.

I look forward to showing you this world—

One full of happiness and pain,

Full of life and death.

A world that will crush you and enchant you,

Full of the magic of nature and its brutality.

Be curious, my son.

Embrace the new, love to learn.

Learn to filter out the noise.

Respect your body, yourself and others.

Be passionate about your dreams, 

not about corporations; 

protect those who in need.

Welcome to this amazing, scary, exciting, boring, unjust—yet full of values—place.

It's a short trip, so make it matter the most by doing the wisest thing you can:

Find someone to share it with.

Experience love, rejection, and companionship.

Take risks, but also plan ahead.

Make it last long enough—yet don't play it too safe.

Διαπίστωση #19

When we are born, we are given two finite and valuable resources.

We are given Time and a bucket of Effort.

We should be waking up and going to sleep always having these in my mind. 

Every day gone, every effort spent is a thing of the past. 

Something we will never get back.

Yet, we spend them like we have them in abundance. 

Mindlessly, without cause. 

Only ,close to the end, we realise our mistake, despite knowing their limited nature from early on.

This is what humankind is about. 

A monstrous intelligence of poor wisdom.

The Truth about Sancho Panza

Without making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years, by feeding him a great number of romances of chivalry and adventure in the evening and night hours, in so diverting from himself his demon, whom he later called Don Quixote, that this demon thereupon set out, uninhibited, on the maddest exploits, which, however, for the lack of a preordained object, which should have been Sancho Panza himself, harmed nobody. A free man, Sancho Panza philosophically followed Don Quixote on his crusades, perhaps out of a sense of responsibility, and had of them a great and edifying entertainment to the end of his days.

- Franz Kafka

A new Sun

A new Sun is about to rise. 

A new era and a new challenge. 

One I am eager to take. 

Yet, I am afraid. 

Afraid of myself, of my weaknesses and how I can rise above them.

I have a very high bar to bit. 

I can't even begin to understand how they did it. 

The amount of effort and bravery. 

The sleepless nights,

The tenacity to train my character and brain.

To give me all I needed to thrive in the society. 

How? How do I start?

How can I give you everything I have, without hurting you?

There are times that I feel afraid. 

Afraid that I will not be good enough.

But then, I remember:

Fear is a superpower. 

It makes us think faster, harder. Be on our feet.

I know it will be my friend going forward. 

Fear and love always go hand in hand. 

We always think that love makes you achieve unimaginable feats.

But no, if you peel its layer and get to the root of the motive, love is not the fuel of your engine. 

It's fear. 

Fear of seeing your loved ones get hurt.

Fear of what could scar them.

Fear will lend us its strength and push us upwards in ways we have never been pushed before. 

So, Fear, please lend me your strength and thank you for being here.

To help me, help my Sun.

Sad and short story

Today I woke up and thought it was Saturday.