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This is the biography of Karl Marx, Father of communism, a great philosopher, foreshighted and very much intellectual person of his time. He was not only the leader of communist, he was the inspiration for all the people arround the world. Plz don’t think that i have posted his biography to lobby on the side of communist party. I would like to tell you frrankly about me that i am the supporter of truth, i am the supporter of development, i am the supporter of humanism, i am the supporter of freedom. I don’t like to be recognized with a particular party’s or principle’s. I have my own principle, own life style and i only like to walk on that way where my heart and soul want to take me. It is only begining, i have planned to post such biography of other top most leaders arround the world including the leaders from Nepal like B. P. Koirala, Madhan Bhandari etc. also. I hope that you will get something important from here.
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in the city of Trier, Germany. His father was a lawyer who came from a long line of Rabbis, but had changed his faith to Protestantism in order to keep his job. Karl Marx went to the University of Bonn to study law when he was 17 years old. Here he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, whose father, Baron von Westphalen, influenced Marx to read Romantic literature and Saint-Simonian politics. Only a year later, Marx was moved by his father to the University of Berlin where he studied Hegelianism, influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach and other Hegelians. He admired Hegel’s dialectics and belief in historical inevitability, but Marx questioned the idealism and abstract thought of philosophy and maintained his belief that reality lies in the material base of economics. In distinct contrast to Hegel’s concentration on the state in his philosophy of law, Marx saw civil society as the sphere to be studied in order to understand the historical development of humankind. In 1841 Marx earned his doctorate at Jena with his work on the materialism and atheism of Greek atomists.
It was difficult for Marx to find publishers because of his radical political views, so he moved to Cologne, which was known to house a strong liberal opposition movement. The liberal group the Cologne Circle published a paper by Marx defending the freedom of the press in their newspaper The Rhenish Gazette (in 1942 he was made the editor of the paper). In Cologne Marx met Moses Hess, a radical who organized socialist meetings, which Marx attended. At these meetings Marx learned of the struggles of the German working-class. Based on the information he gathered from the members present at the meetings, Marx wrote an article on the poverty of the Mosel wine-farmers in which he was highly critical of the government. When the article was published in 1843, the Prussian authorities banned The Rhenish Gazette and threatened Marx with his arrest. Marx married his fiancé and they fled together to Paris. Here he took a position as editor of a political journal called Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (Franco-German Annals) that was designed to connect French socialism and radical Hegelianism. Although the journal only lived as long as one issue, it was a valuable opportunity for Marx. Through it he met his life-long friend Friedrich Engels, a contributor to the journal. Other prominent contributors included his old mentor from Berlin, Bruno Bauer, and the Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.
While in Paris, Marx became a communist, and worked primarily on studying political economy and the history of the French Revolution. He wrote a series of papers known as ÷konomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1844), however they were not published until the 1930s. The Manuscripts are influenced by Feuerbach and outline a humanist idea of communism. Marx contrasts capitalist society, and an alienated nature of labor, with communist society, in which human beings in cooperative production develop their nature freely. In 1844 Marx reviewed Bruno Bauer’s book On the Jewish Question. More than a review, Marx used the article to critique the continued influence of religion over politics, and propose a revolutionary change to the structure of European society.
In 1845 Marx was expelled from France by Guizot. He fled with Engels to Brussels where they stayed for three years with intermittent trips to England to visit Engels’ family who had cotton-spinning interests in Manchester. While in Brussels Marx wrote a piece against the idealistic socialism of P.J. Proudhon called The Poverty of Philosophy. He also worked on his materialist conception of history, and developed the manuscript that would come to be named The German Ideology when it was published after his death. This paper argues that the nature of an individual is dependent upon the material conditions that determine his production. It is a historical study of modes of production through the ages, and in it Marx predicts the collapse of industrial capitalism and the advancement of communism. Marx joined the Communist League at this time, which was an organization of German émigré workers centered in London. Marx and Engels became the major theoretical force of the League, and at a conference in 1847 they were commissioned to write a declaration of the League’s position. The hope was that the Manifest der kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto) would inspire social revolution, and no sooner was it published than the 1848 revolutions broke out across Europe. This work marks a turn in Marx’s writing from appealing to natural rights as justification for social reform, to indicating that the laws of history would inevitably lead to the power of the working class. The Manifesto distinguishes communism from other movements, proposes specific social reforms, and includes a description of the struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. It also explicitly encourages workers to unite in revolution against the existing regimes.
The panic caused by the February revolution of 1848 caused the Belgian government to expel Marx from Brussels. He was invited by the French provisional government to return to Paris. From there, he returned to Cologne with some friends to start the newspaper the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. The government there attempted to shut down the paper through legal means, and finally succeeded by finding pretexts to expel the editors. Marx and his friends were expelled after the revolts of May 1849, and the newspaper’s last edition was June 1849. Marx had to return to Paris, but he was expelled again immediately, and moved on to London, which would be his final home.
In London Marx rejoined with the Communist League, confident that there would be further revolutionary action in Europe. He proceeded to write two pamphlets about the 1848 revolution in France and its effects, titled, The Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. He felt that new revolution would only be possible if there was to be a new crisis, and he hoped to uncover what would cause this crisis. He spent a large amount of his time in the British Museum studying political economy toward this end. For the first part of the 1850s Marx, Jenny, and their four children lived in an impoverished state in a three room flat in London’s Soho. The couple would have two more children, but only three in all would survive. The family survived primarily on gifts from Engels whose own income came from the family business in Manchester. Marx also earned a small amount from articles he wrote as the foreign correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune. In 1864 Marx and Engels together founded the International Workingmen’s Association, which would finally break up due to disagreements between Marx and the anarchist Mikhail Babuknin.
By 1857 Marx had written an 800-page manuscript which was to become Das Kapital (Capital). This is his major work on political economy, capital, landed property, the state, wage labor, foreign trade and the world market. In the early part of the 1860s he took a break from his work on Das Kapital to work on Theories of Surplus Value, a three-volume work. This text discusses specific theories of political economy, primarily those of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. In 1867 Marx published volume I of Das Kapital, an analysis of the capitalist process of production, with an elaboration on his version of labor theory value, surplus value, and exploitation, that he predicted would lead to a falling profit rate and the collapse of industrial capitalism. Marx continued to work on Volumes II and III of Das Kapital for the rest of his life, even though they were essentially finished in the late 1860s. Engels would publish the last two volumes after Marx’s death. By 1871 Marx’s daughter Eleanor, who was 17 at the time, was helping her father with his work. She had been taught at home by Marx himself, and grew up with a rich understanding of the capitalist system which would allow her to play an important part in the future of the British labor movement.
Marx’s health rapidly declined during the last ten years of his life and he was unable to work at the same impressive pace he had set in his early years. He still paid close attention to contemporary politics, especially concerning Germany and Russia, and he often offered his comments. In his Critique of the Gotha Programme he critiqued the actions of his admirers Karl Liebknecht and August Bebel, disagreeing with their compromises with state socialism in the interest of a united socialist party. He indicated in his letters to Vera Zasulich of this time that he imagined it could be possible for Russia to bypass a capitalist stage of development and move directly to communism by basing its economy on common ownership of land characterized by the village. In 1881 both Marx and his wife became ill. Marx had a swollen liver, and survived, but Jenny died on December 2, 1881. In January 1883 Marx was deeply saddened by the loss of his eldest daughter to cancer of the bladder. On March 14, 1883 Marx was found having passed away in his armchair. He is buried at Highgate Cemetery in London.
by Debbie
It never drifted as winds do
Never faded like the waning moon
It advances like the sun at noon
Withstanding pain, it still pursues
Her love for him drifts as rivers do
Flows continuously in each foolish beat
Let eons pass; Still, it deepens some feet
Unfathomable deepness, I presume?
She whispered within her heart,
“Let it be still, oh, young Heart!
Still, let it be!
Those brown eyes shall
Never gaze deeply at me.?”
Forbear this not, nevertheless!
It never drifted as winds do
Never faded like the waning moon
The turbulent the current of water is,
The stronger her feelings grow.
Immeasurable love?… Yes, I presume.
Like a choral music sung by few
Withstanding pain, it still pursues
Love, love, as it drifts within
Young at heart, the struggle begins
by Desigirl
Love is a flower
Hate is thorns
Love is an aroma
Hate is a stench
Love is tender
Hate is morose
Love is facile
Hate is dense
Love is solace
Hate is a struggle
Love is belief
Hate is anguish
Love is splendour
Hate is bleak
Love is elation
Hate is vexation
Love is ailing
Love is celestial
Love wins over
Hate loses all!
Hi Everybody!
Today I am feeling a great happiness inside me while writing this post. Not only me but also the whole Nepal has excited from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Rebellion Side, Nepal Communist Party (Maoists). Now the bitter past of our country will not be repeated. There will be no any fight between the family members. There should not be seen and heard the news of killings, disappearances, terror, destructions etc within the country. Now the new beginning of our country has started. I am really very much happy with this great success of peacebuilding process. This is a very good lesson to all the rebellion groups and the countries around the world. This is a historical accord not only for the Nepal but also it is an example to the whole world.
Although the war is finished between the Government of Nepal and the Maoists, we have lots of challenges to become completely success in making the dream country. Now the period of post conflict phase will be started. The time of reconciliation, rehabilitation, trauma healing will be begun. There are still possibilities of other different types of conflict in Nepal like the conflict announced by the so-called Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha. Now, every party should be careful about the future and any types of conflict should be settled in the right time. Otherwise there may be chance of repeating the same past. All the parties should be clear about the peaceful movement. There should be strictly prohibited on the destructive activities and should be free for any types of peaceful movements. The whole system should be changed. There must be hearing of any little voices of the common people.
Now, we all the people also have to forget whatever in the past and we all have to put hands together in making the future of the country better. All the parties and the leaders have to realize their mistakes in front of the people and should take the promise of not repeating the same in the future. We, people want to be ruled by us. We would like to participate in all the policy making, decision making and development activities which impact on our lives. We also have to be a responsible citizen of the country. We also have to be updated of all the activities and the developments going in our country. If we become quite like the past then our dream of making our country beautiful might be impossible. So, we should also wake up now.
Dear all,
Nice tips for your health! Let’s adapted quickly!
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BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood
sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain
causing brain degeneration.
2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in
mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and
nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling
polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a
decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will
accelerate the death of brain cells.
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon
dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain
damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in
effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain
stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
The main causes of liver damage are:
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and
artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil
use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils
like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if
the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be
finished in one sitting, do not store.
We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to
adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating
habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very
important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals
according to “schedule.”
Because:
Evening at 9 – 11pm : is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic
chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system
(lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening
to music. If during this time a housewife is still in
an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or
monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact
on health.
Evening at 11pm – 1am : is the detoxification process in the liver, and
ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.
Early morning 1 – 3am : detoxification process in the gall, also ideally
done in a deep sleep state.
Early morning 3 – 5am : detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will
sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the
detoxification process had reached the respiratory
tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with
toxin removal process.
Morning 5 – 7am : detoxification in the colon, you should empty your
bowel.
Morning 7 – 9am : absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you
should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast
should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before
7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit.
Those who always skip breakfast, they should hange
their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 – 10am
rather than no meal at all.
Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of
removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the
time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and
don’t sleep late.
TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH……………..
Hi, it has been almost 25 years that i have come to this world. It is difficult to explain about ownself. So, i am not going to explain how do i look and how do i seem. I am just going to share that i am a person with positive hope, optimism in life and a great enthuasism to do something much better in my life. I believe that nothing is impossible in this entire world. Just we have confident and we have belief in ourself. Just be set a way and keep on walking untill we dont’ find the destination. Continue reading ‘About Myself !’
What things Maoists want to prove by their activities ?
Published November 19, 2006 Aritcles 2 CommentsAfter a long time war against socalled old regime, Maoists have come in the peace process accepting the multi party democratic and parliamentary system. They are trying to show that whatever they have done in the past those all things are done for the shake of people and they are fully committed in the rights of people. They are showing a day dream to all the Nepali people that within 10 to 15 years our Nepal will be as developed as European Countries. They will make our Nepal a total democratic republican country and always walk on that way where people ordered to go. These all things which their top leaders are saying are very beautiful in words and I would like to thank them for making we, Nepali people very optimistic towards our better future. We can hear always good lectures and nice interviews in any channels. Every leaders (from whichever parties) are saying that now the bad days of Nepali people are gone. They are going to begin a good future of Nepali people. It is very nice to hear so because only few times ago in our country, no any leaders used to say like that. There we could not see any optimism in the face of any leaders too. For this very positive development I would like to thank all the parties and leaders which have played a great role in this development.
Those all things seems very beautiful in words and sounds very positive. But now a days, I am wondering. I am suspecting and I am in a great confusion whether those all things are only for saying and making we fool ? I hope that this is not true. Whatever they are saying, they will definitely proved by their activities. Making myself positive attitude and thinking like optimistic, I sometimes try to assure myself that there are certainly coming good days for us. But at the same moment I get again shocked when I watch news in television channels and see newspapers. Everyday there comes news like ….. persons/childrens were kidnapped/taken forcefully or by luring them showing such great dreams which they can’t evaluate correctly or analytically is this possible or is this made certainly or not. Everyday there comes news like businessmen, industrialist or …… people are compelled to give donation whether they are able or not. Everyday there comes news like a leader of one party always blaming and critising the other parties. There seems that they have no any beliefs in others. At the same moment some of them say that now we never move forward to war, some of them would have instructing their cadres that be ready always it is not sure whenever we may be go forward to war again. So do not let your mind to feel that the war is completely finished.
So, how could I be able to think that I am secure now to move any places of my country freely ? How could I be able to think that now definitely our country will be as developed as like European countries in recent futures ? How could I be able to feel that now we will have our rights in any decision which effects in our lives ? How could I be sure about my better future in this country ? Is this fair to forgive to all those armies, cadres and leaders(of both sides) by whose hands thousands of our brothers, sisters, dads and moms were killed, thousands were tortured brutally and hundreds of thousands of people are living in terrifying environment now also ? Is this be excusable by the name of political development and a great revolution ? How could a father, a mother, a sister or a brother put hands together with the killer of their piece of heart ? What should be happened if another party or another group announce another war in the name of their status, in the name of their religion, in the name of their caste or etc ? Isn’t it become the easy way to anyone to fight for ther needs ? What the leaders have thought for such types of future possibilities ? The leaders of the Maoists are saying that they have done such things only for the shake of people. Whatever they have done they have ordered by the people to do so. Is it right that a father ordered to kill his son, a sister ordered to kill his brother ? They are saying that they are ready to give off hundreds of thousands of people lives again to bring revolution in
Nepal and to make our country beautiful ? Do Nepali people will be really happy making their country beautiful by the bloodshed of their own family members ? How could they say so ? Has it not been clear that whatever they have done they have done only for their power and position ? The top most leader of the Maoists, Com Prachanda told in an interview that he has never been in any war carrying weapon and he has not killed anyone by his own hand. What does it mean ? Is it morality to say so ? What he wants to prove that he is as pure as Lord Buddha. Whatever has been in the past in the name of socalled revolution, should com prachanda take the all responsibility or not ? They are saying that they are fully committed in the theme of democratic republic. But in practical they have been still torturing the people only for the reason that they are in against of their thoughts. What things will be proved by such types activities is that they only want to be the most powerful party in this country and they only want to take this country by which way they like to go. All the lectures, sayings and beautiful words are like only the golden plated to the almonium.
I would like to request the Maoists please implement in practical which have been saying in the words. This time is for reconciliation not for showing powers and pressurizing the people. Now the bloodshed in this country is enough. We do not want any fractions between ourselves. We don’t want to make this country by the bloodshed of our fellows. Accept your mistakes and announce your punishment by youselves. This is the time of realization. Who can say that we are always ready to flow blood of our thousands of people in the name of revolution must have capacity to say that I am also always ready to flow my black blood in the name of realization of my own mistakes publicly. And they must have strength to accept the punishment in front of the people.
Our Sonnet
Sweet Lady, song of my heart,
Hold my hand, as this journey we start.
Lift me up in spirit of joy and gladness;
And shield my soul from heartbreak and sadness.
Steadfast, honest and true;
Your partner is here and will forever love you.
It is my prayer that I will always be;
The one who brings you joy and sets your spirit free.
With my love I’ll cover you and warm your soul with mine;
Give you pleasures – like none you will find.
Your Sweet Lady, song of your heart;
Will love you forever, together or apart.
So hear me Sweet Lady, and know in your soul;
That there is no better future than with you to grow old.
Endless caresses, touches and kisses;
Our passion a banner for our love’s true existence.
My hand I extend and my honor I offer;
For being with you my love, there is no greater pleasure.
Your hand I accept, and all your love as well;
My heart sings so loudly, all can tell
I am loved and in love with the man made for me
Hold my hand; let us walk through this life
Being what we were meant to be
Together.
- Carol Stecher and Jim Foreman -
It has not been so long time that we can see the line of happiness and rays of possibilites shined in the face of Nepali people. People have started to celebrate. They have started to be optimistic about the future of Nepal. They have started to raise hopes of making beautiful Nepal. But once more time they are made sad. Why the leaders and the parties are giving more emphasis to their status and egos rather than the current situation of the country ? Why they always failed to fulfil their promise and decisions ? Why they always try to stand themselves over the country not in the country ? Why so much egos and distances between own peoples ? Although peoples are divided into the name of different parties with different principles and visions, we shouldnot forget that we all are the people of same country and we all have same visions towards our country. We can make our country beautiful and developed only at that time when we all put our hands together, when we all set same visions and show devoteeness towards our country. There is only thing which is playing obstacles between the parties to agree and to implement in the historical documents and their promises. That is not more then their self esteem. Why they always forget that first comes nation than the parties. If the country will be failure then what should they do taking 100 or 200 seats in the parliament, taking major ministries in the government, showing own position vast, being more strong than others and talking big shots about the country and the nation ? It is just like ” mookh ma ram ram and bagali ma chhura”. This types of things not only harm the country but they also harmed coz both are interrelated. We should always keep in mind that we all are the elements fo a system, if an element of system is disappeared the whole system will be affected. So, from now put your hands together and set a only one vision that is peace, prosperious, beautiful and developed Nepal. Your theories, principles and way should be different but the vision should be one. And then only we can get our target.
Everywhere we can find a lots of problem always. Problems are the birth gifts to the human beings. We have to struggle always in the life. If we look our problems from very narrow side and feel like that my problem is very big and afraid always then we can never solve that problem and we should always live in the horror of that problem. But if we see it broadly, with broad eyes and think it a small part of life then we can find the solution easily and more forward. So don’t let to be grow and be huge to any sorts of problem in life. But here, we can see that our leaders are making big and big instead of stepping forward to the solution easily. It should be solved in very short time after teh Janaandolan part 2. They have already agreed in teh 12 points understanding. They have already become partners of 8 parties. They are no longer rebel and government now. They are the parties of equal status of politics. Then why it is taking so much time to reach in a decision ? Why they should battle in position now at this moment, when they have already agreed in the election fo Constituently Assembly ? They can show their status and position from that election. Why they need to be more superior now ? We all know that this is transitional period and in this tarnsitional period we all have to be integreted and show solidarity in the peacebuilding. This position doesn’t matter any more after CA election.
Now this is the time for movement not in against but to “khabardar” to the leaders and the parties not to play game again in our future. Now we don’t want to fight with each other. We don’t want to be seperate with each others. We would like to live together with putting hands together forever. We would like to build our country a dream country. Whoever tries to pour water in our dream, listen everyone! we will pour mud over you putting you in the ditch.
Hi Everybody ! read this once a time.
“The Clock is Ticking….”
Written by Matt Lazzara
September 7th, 2003
I don’t think a lot of people sit around and contemplate their lives.
I mean, people think about their futures and what they’re going to do,
and what they should have done in order to achieve something, but I
don’t think anyone contemplates their present. What they’re doing
right now. Everyone’s heard of living in the moment or whatever, but I
think very few people act on it. Myself included and that’s something
that I regret immensely.
Life is a finite thing. Obviously, everyone’s life is going to end,
but mine has a time limit. No surprises for me, and depressingly
enough, that time limit is going to run out rather soon. I’ve never
really told anyone how long I have left, or what exactly (in great
detail) is wrong with me, because I would rather my friends viewed me
as a vital, volaile, rather silly human beings, but at age 21, most
people don’t understand or know how to contemplate the thought that
someone you know, they would abandon me for more secure, lasting
relationships.
So everyday, every minute is vital to me, the most mundane things are
breaths of fresh air. The things that most people take for granted but
shouldn’t – a kiss, a pudding fight, a good long walk or an intriguing
conversation – are now intensely important to me, and I think they
should be important to everyone. The fact that I know I won’t be able
to experience these things makes them achingly more important to me,
and they make me desparate to achieve them one more time.
I want to close my eyes and kiss a girl one more time; the kind of
kiss that makes you feel like you’re floating, the kind where you
forget to do something with your hands because it’s so good. I want to
go camping, and lay in the grass and think how naively beautiful the
day is. I want to shoot off fireworks and run away when the cops pull
up. I want someone to hold my hand and tell me something nice about
myself. I want to be able to read the paper and deride George W. to
someone, and have them hate that asshole with me. I want to sit on a
stoop late into the night, drinking shitty beer and telling stories. I
want to feel alive, and not dead or dying, and think that those things
- the most trivial and passing connections to the world and people in
it – are violently important.
So this is my contribution to you. I’m desperately telling you – all
of you- to take advantage of your youth and vitality. I hear too many
people talking about college and getting shitty jobs afterward. I hear
too many people talking about work and how this and that s..ks. F..k,
we’re all wasting our lives doing things that disconnect us from
everyone else! You don’t need a four or five year plan, and you sure
as hell don’t need to worry about feeling innocent and immature again.
Worry about making everyday something to talk about, and not just
another blank page in your life.
I used to act like you. I had a plan. I had a future, and all that
blew away, but right now, I barely have a present, and that’s how I’ve
realized the error of our ways. Please, please, don’t get old and die,
and die of cancer, and realize you did nothing with your life but make
plans that never happened. Don’t miss opportunities anymore. If you
like someone, tell them, if you think the time is right to kiss
someone, do it. If you feel like you’re in a rut, don something to
stupid and silly and fun. If you feel the world is ugly, make
something beautiful. Stop being so cautious, some movie line said : if
you take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive.
Trust me, as much as life sucks sometimes, and wow, do I know it
sucks, it is still the only thing we know. It is the only thing that
matters, and it’s wonderful. Life is a beautiful, ridiculous, tragic
disaster, but it’s the only thing we have. So don’t let it lie by the
wayside in pursuit of crap that’s barely important. People are the
most important resource, and so are the relationships we build with
them. I feel the pinch of that more than ever now. If we could spend
400 billion dollars to cure cancer instead of building and maintaining
weapons, I wouldn’t have to write this. So this is, essentially, a
plea. This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written, and I hope it
reaches more people than I ever could.
Don’t forget this is the only life you have, make something worthwhile
out of it, and no one who you’ve laughed, cried, kissed, and bled with
will ever forget you.
Matthew D, Lazzara
April 2, 1982 – February 15, 2004
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