Friday, March 28, 2008

Pablo Neruda - Die Slowly
He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions,
the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.
He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives, die slowly.
He who does not travel,
who does not read,
who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck,
about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.
He or she who abandon a project before starting it,
who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know,
he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,die slowly.
Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.
Only a burning patience will leadto the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo Neruda

9 Comments:

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At 11:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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My name is Arman Nafisi-Movaghar and I am currently doing an undergraduate honors research study for the Department of Communication at the University of Washington on blogs by Iranians living outside of Iran. I am interested in seeing how Iranians in the diaspora are using their blogs and specifically if they are promoting democratic values on their blogs. To help answer this question, I created a survey for Iranian bloggers living outside of Iran to complete. Since you are an Iranian living outside of Iran who maintains a blog, I would like to invite you to take my survey. The purpose of the following paragraphs is to give you the information you will need to help you decide whether or not to participate in the survey. Please read this information carefully.

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My survey asks a few demographic questions regarding age, gender, and education level. In addition, my survey also will ask for your opinion about democracy and whether you think blogs can be used to promote democracy in Iran. The survey is short and will only take 15-20 minutes to complete. You are also free to skip any question on my survey that you don’t want to answer.

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Expected Benefits:
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anafisi@u.washington.edu

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At 10:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow, great poem...very true and i agree with its message...we all have to try and celebrate life as much as we can :)

 
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At 2:22 PM, Anonymous shiva-uk said...

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به آرامی آغاز به مردن مي كنی
اگر سفر نكنی،
اگر كتابی نخوانی،
اگر به اصوات زندگی گوش ندهی،
اگر از خودت قدردانی نكنی.
به آرامی آغاز به مردن مي كنی
زماني كه خودباوري را در خودت بكشی،
وقتي نگذاري ديگران به تو كمك كنند.
به آرامي آغاز به مردن مي كنی
اگر برده ی عادات خود شوی،
اگر هميشه از يك راه تكراری بروی …
اگر روزمرّگی را تغيير ندهی
اگر رنگهای متفاوت به تن نكنی،
يا اگر با افراد ناشناس صحبت نكنی.

تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن مي كنی
اگر از شور و حرارت،
از احساسات سركش،
و از چيزهايی كه چشمانت را به درخشش وامی دارند،
و ضربان قلبت را تندتر مي كنند،
دوری كنی . .. .،

تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن مي كنی
اگر هنگامی كه با شغلت، يا عشقت شاد نيستی، آن را عوض نكنی،
اگر برای مطمئن در نامطمئن خطر نكنی،
اگر ورای روياها نروی،
اگر به خودت اجازه ندهی
كه حداقل يك بار در تمام زندگي ات
ورای مصلحت انديشی بروی . . .
-
امروز زندگی را آغاز كن!
امروز مخاطره كن!
امروز كاری كن!
نگذار كه به آرامی بميری!
شادی را فراموش نكن!

"پابلو نرودا ،ترجمه از احمد شاملو"

 
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