For 27 years I've been trying to believe and confide in
Different people I've found.
Some of them got closer than others
And someone wouldn't even bother and then you came around
I didn't really know what to call you, you didn't know me at all
But I was happy to explain.
I never really knew how to move you
So I tried to intrude through the little holes in your veins
And I saw you
But that's not an invitation
That's all I get
If this is communication
I disconnect
I've seen you, I know you
But I don't know
How to connect, so I disconnect

You always seem to know where to find me and I'm still here behind you
In the corner of your eye.
I'll never really learn how to love you
But I know that I love you through the hole in the sky.
Where I see you
And that's not an invitation
That's all I get
If this is communication
I disconnect
I've seen you, I know you
But I don't know
How to connect, so I disconnect

Well this is an invitation
It's not a threat
If you want communication
That's what you get
I'm talking and talking
But I don't know
How to connect
And I hold a record for being patient
With your kind of hesitation
I need you, you want me
But I don't know
How to connect, so I disconnect
I disconnect.

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

Labels: philosophy, quotes

This time it was my funny work mate (actually boss!) who told me about this site:
ToyVoyagers - Travelling Toys - Little Things on Big Adventures.
Now be honest, it did make you smile :)

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Labels: philosophy, poetry

Semiserious tribute to a brilliant site I mentioned in a previous blog post: Book-A-Minute Classics.

Following are the ultra-condensed great lessons you can learn from the excellent book "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill".
Do never forget them.

1. Who cares?

2. Who do you think you are?

3. Peace and love!

4. Rome wasn't built in a day.

5. Meditate, people, meditate.


Hehe. I will write more serious and boring posts about Ricard's philosophy one day.
But I thought this concise list would be of help :)

Labels: books, philosophy, websites

Silver Birch against a Swedish sky
The singer in the band made me want to cry
We're all inside our own heads now
We are leaving new friends
Leaving this town
I wish you could be here with me
I would show you off like a trophy
The road it winds, it twists, it turns, oh my stomach burns

Once again I'll be the foolish one
Thinking a blink of these lashes would make you come
Don't you worry, don't get in a state
I don't believe in true love anyway
Who's being pessimistic now
I could document this as our first, as our last row
The more you look forlorn, the more to you I warm.

I won't be seeing you for a long while
Oh I hope it's not as long as these country miles
I feel lost, I feel lost.

No I won't be seeing you for a long while
Oh I hope it's not as long as these country miles
I feel lost, I feel lost.

No I won't be seeing you for a long while
I hope it's not as long as these country miles
I feel lost, I feel lost.

No I won't be seeing you for a long while
I hope it's not as long as these country miles
I feel lost,
I feel lost,
I feel lost,
I got lost.

Labels: music

I guess this has to be taken seriously, but honestly I think it's just mental.
And outrageously pointless.

On the other hand, I seem to be attracted by pointless stuff.
Enjoy :)

Worldometers

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