I sometimes think that we need to die a little iin order to understand how to live...
To nearly die - to experience the brink of death; the edge of living...
so as to experience the passion for life.
Many of those who have experienced near-death, have returned with a new exuberance for life.
Yet so many of us experience life as a lethargy. We trudge through life as we do through mud.
Sleepwalkers. We're so far from being Dreamweavers.
Perhaps a little death will awaken us, make us glad.
Take this body and break it into beautiful pieces: make this drunken soul mad...
Make this beautiful traitor glad.
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LIVING
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I know living isn't an easy thing to do
Or falling in love and singing of your girl
Taking a stroll under the stars at night
Warming up in the sunshine by day
Sneaking out for half a day to take it easy
On top of Istanbul's loveliest hill
- Countless shades of blue flow in the Bosphorus -
And to forget all in the legions of blues.
II
I know living isn't an easy thing to do
But look
The bed of a dead man is still warm,
A dead man's wrist watch is ticking.
Brother, living is no easy affair,
But dying isn't easy, either.
Leaving the world isn't easy at all.
Orhan Veli
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