"Smile"

"Smile though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds, in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile, through your fear and sorrow
Smile, and there'll be tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through
If you'll....
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear, may be ever so near,
That's the time, you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile,
If you'll just....
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear, may be ever so near,
That's the time, you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile,
If you'll just....
Smile..."

by: Judy Garland

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin once said:

"Já perdoei erros quase imperdoáveis,
tentei substituir pessoas insubstituíveis
e esquecer pessoas inesquecíveis.

Já fiz coisas por impulso,
já me decepcionei com pessoas quando nunca pensei decepcionar-me, mas também decepcionei alguém.

Já abracei para proteger,
já ri quando não podia,
fiz amigos eternos,
amei e fui amado,
mas também já fui rejeitado,
fui amado e não amei.

Já gritei e saltei de tanta felicidade,
já vivi de amor e fiz juras eternas,
"parti a cara muitas vezes"!

Já chorei a ouvir música e a ver fotos,
já liguei só para escutar uma voz,
apaixonei-me por um sorriso,
já pensei que fosse morrer de tanta saudade
e tive medo de perder alguém especial (e acabei por perder).

Mas vivi, e ainda vivo!
Não passo pela vida…
E você também não devia passar!

Viva!
Bom mesmo é ir à luta com determinação,
abraçar a vida com paixão,
perder com classe
e vencer com ousadia,
porque o mundo pertence a quem se atreve
e a vida é "muito" pra ser insignificante."

Já li este poema em mil sítios diferentes mas continua, de certa forma, a me dizer alguma coisa... Talvez pela sua sabedoria e experiência consiga tocar tantos corações, tantos como os que têm vontade de transmitir as suas palavras e fazer delas eternas. Sou apenas mais uma, mas considero este poema imperdível...

Again...

Once again I say: Life isn't always fair...
This is the biggest true of my life, maybe the only one.
All the pieces of my life I managed to gatter along the way seem, somehow, to be vanishing in front of me every single day...
I feel sad, really sad, and the only one who used to take this sadness away, it's making it even worse...
A while ago I used to cry when I was like this, now I don't know, I think I kinda developed a shield around me that only makes me stay really, really quiet somewhere, alone, without listenig to a sound, and only watching whatever that is around...
Can life be only this? A highway where everything goes so fast we can hardly taste it but still feeling sorrow for one or other lost? Can we be sad of losing something that wasn't really ours?
So many questions and no one to answer...
I need vacations, that's true, but I also need to run away, to a place where nobody knows, where nobody could ever find me or see me again... I'm tired of the same old days, all look the same, the people always seem the same, nothing ever changes except for me, 'cause each and every day I feel a little bit more distant, it's like I already have one foot in that so called place where another life, a better one, is waiting for me...