Sep 26, 2011
"My God, if I had a fragment of life left…
I would not let a single day pass without telling the people I love that I love them. I would convince every woman and every man that they are my dearest, and I would live in love with love itself.
I would prove to people how wrong they are to think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To the children, I would give wings, but I would let them learn how to fly on their own. To the elderly, I would teach that death does not come with old age, but with oblivion.
I have learned so many things from you, people… I have learned that the whole world wants to live on the top of the mountain, without knowing that true happiness is in the way we climb the steep cliff. I have realized that when a newborn baby, for the first time, squeezes its father's finger with its tiny fist, it has captured him forever. I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help him stand up.
There is so much I could have learned from you, although it won't be of much use anymore, because when they pack me into that box, I will, unfortunately, begin to die…"
Gabriel García Márquez (attributed)
"Bože moj, kad bih imao jedan komadić života…
Ne bih pustio da prođe ni jedan jedini dan, a da ne kažem ljudima koje volim da ih volim. Uveravao bih svaku ženu i svakog muškarca da su mi najbliži i živeo bih zaljubljen u ljubav.
Dokazivao bih ljudima koliko greše kada misle da prestaju da se zaljubljuju kada ostare, a ne znaju da su ostarili kada prestanu da se zaljubljuju. Deci bih darovao krila, ali bih im prepustio da sama nauče da lete. Stare bih poučavao da smrt ne dolazi sa starošću, već sa zaboravom.
Toliko sam stvari naučio od vas, ljudi… Naučio sam da čitav svet želi da živi na vrhu planine, a da ne zna da je istinska sreća u načinu savladavanja litica. Shvatio sam da kada tek rođeno dete stegne svojom malom šakom, po prvi put, prst svoga oca, da ga je uhvatio zauvek. Naučio sam da čovek ima pravo da gleda drugog odozgo jedino kad treba da mu pomogne da se uspravi.
Toliko sam toga mogao da naučim od vas, premda mi to neće biti od veće koristi, jer kada me budu spakovali u onaj sanduk, ja ću na žalost početi da umirem…"
Gabriel García Márquez
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