Pain, suffering and discomfort

Our civilization has become more risk averse and less discomfort tolerant. The value of liberty has decreased.

We want to treat all symptoms of any discomfort. We want to feel good. We want to enjoy. Nobody is willing to take responsibility. We want to live easy, secure lives. Even at the cost of our own freedoms.

I am a legend?

Over a EUR5 pint of beer in a relaxed mood pondering the questions of future, morality, justice, and freedom I was told that I have been a legend. Its interesting to learn that one is, or had been a legend.

I was always wondering how does it feel to be a legend. I always thought that I cannot find this out, since you have to be a legend and you have to know that you are a legend to feel how is it to be one.

Okay, so I am a legend.

So what does it mean that one is a legend? It means that one is perceived as a role-model? As an example that other's look to for inspiration? It means that one is a source of motivation? It means that if those that get inspired achieve things that one had achieved, they acclaim that "Now I am good, since I have achieved what The Legend has!" It means that Legend is used as a sort of standard of excellence against which to measure one's success?

Does it also means that one has to live their life in a certain (exemplary) way?

In this respect I have come to think of talents in the parable mentioned by Evangelist Matthew.
(Matthew 25:14-30)

And the fear that I have is that of ending up as the last servant who dug a hole and hid the talents entrusted to him. I often feel the desire to hide, live a life of a shepherd, and not to be responsible for society. But then I remember this type of parable and the message embedded in it, and I see that I cannot just hide.

So what can one do?

Get up every morning and fight your way through the day. You may be a legend, you just don't know it yet. So don't disappoint those that trust in you, they follow your story.

Do the best to be a worthwhile legend.

Friday I am in love

(The Cure)

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Or, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Saturday wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday never hesitate...
I don't care if Mondays black
Tuesday Wednesday heart attack
Thursday never looking back
It's Friday I'm in love
Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday watch the walls instead
It's Friday I'm in love
Saturday wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday never hesitate...
Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's Friday
I'm in love
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love

This is life? No this is Therapy!

Gimme something to breathe
give me a reason to live
close your eyes and see
what you have inside
I think Ive gone insane
I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane

and now the dream is gone and your friend is telling you lies
then you realize
you gonna die anyway
i think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane

Lost in a world with no reality
I'm frightened to move I'm frightened to speak
and I would kill for a good nights sleep
I'm feeling Im feeling dead dead dead dead
I think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think Ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think ive gone insane I cant remember my own name
I think ive gone insane I cant remember
I cant remember I cant remember I cant remember

Pieniądze to nie wszystko

Do ideału za daleko
Tysiąc a może więcej lat
Chociaż posuwasz pełną parą
W kieszeni drobny mak

Wielka wygrana ci się marzy
Naiwnie wierzysz w jakiś cud
Ułożyłbyś się nawet z diabłem
Byleby zgarnąć łup

Ref.: Pieniądze jednak to nie wszystko
Choć na nich twardo stoi świat
Liczy się ktoś kto jest wciąż blisko
Nawet gdy forsy brak

Czasami boli egzystencja
I wszystko idzie bardzo źle
Bo trudno nalać do naczynia
Które ma dziurę w dnie

Myślisz że forsa ci załatwi
Kluczyk do złotych raju bram
Tymczasem może się okazać
Że w raju jesteś sam

Ref.: Pieniądze jednak to nie wszystko

Pieniądze jednak to nie wszystko
Choć na nich twardo stoi świat
Liczy się ktoś kto jest wciąż blisko
Tak jak bliźniaczy brat