Bonding

Ştiţi gluma aia, când nu ştii ce cadou să-i iei unui prieten de ziua lui sau de Crăciun, “Ia-i ceva din casă…”? Ei, bine, cred că tocmai mi s-a luat ceva de Crăciun. Şi mi s-a dat în schimb o învăţătură de viaţă: nu te ataşa prea tare de oameni, they’re not here to stay. Don’t be silly thinking that you’re part of a team, because you’re actually alone. Sometimes more alone than other times. If you succeed in letting people go easily, please tell me how.

Wow, after I jumped it occurred to me life is perfect, life is the best,
full of magic, beauty, opportunity… and television… and surprises, lots
of surprises, yeah. And then there’s the best stuff of course, better than
anything anyone ever made up, ’cause it’s real.

You take a stranger by the hand,
a man who doesn’t understand
his wildest dreams.

You walk across the dirty sand,
and offer him an ocean
wide he’s never seen.

Maybe I was blind, alright,
a man of close mind.
Maybe I was dumb,
but what I forgot to say,
if you didn’t know,
is never let me go,
never let me go,
never let me go,
never let me go.

You run from love and don’t believe,
unless it catches you by the ear,
and even then you struggle.

From Red lsland across the strand,
your footprints still they are in the sand,
everything else washed away.

I may not be alone, oh I,
I may have found my home,
I may have lost my way,
but what I forgot to say,
if you didn’t know,
is never let me go,
never let me go,
never let me go

Published in: on December 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm Leave a Comment

Happy Birthday (La Mulţi Ani!), Romania!

I want to look up to the Romanian politicians. I want be able to trust the elders. I want to be appreciated for what I am. I want to feel that the Romanians are my friends, not my enemies. I want my education to be respected and my work to be rewarded appropriately. Making a decent living should go hand in hand with working. I don’t want to be considered a luxury traveling and having a house of my own to come back to. I’m tired of smelly Romanians. I’m sick of inhaling the dust in Bucharest. I want to see people getting tired of kitsch TV shows and demanding more quality. I want all the CD’s with “manele” burnt and the singers in jail. I want journalists to be well documented and to give pertinent commentaries and articles. I want violent football supporters to be prohibited ever watching a football game again. I don’t want to hear “Romania is a beautiful country, too bad it is inhabited” anymore. I want to be able to walk on the streets without being harassed. I don’t want to feel helpless in shaping Romania’s and Romanian’s future.

Inspired by this campaign, “We want a different Romania”, of which I’ve heard from Laura’s blog.

PS: writing in English on Romania’s National Day isn’t accidental.

Published in: on December 1, 2008 at 1:28 pm Comments (3)
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