The Bill

100 Years

Thanks to numerous, never ending, obsessive fanatic "Stay healthy and live longer" campaigns, smokers are witch hunted, not being active in sports is considered as self destructive, sugar is the new cocaine, organic food the key to a happier life, fat the devil himself and death seems far away...at least this is what we would like to think and manifest in our little minds.

Many people are trying very hard to fight time - congratulations! The overall age expectancy of a New Yorker born in 2000 is 77,6 years compared to 1990 where people reached the age of 72,4 years. But tell me, what do we do with 5,2 years more?

Heart diseases are number 1 cause of death, followed by cancer. But the WHO report of 2001 shows that in the future, in 2020 to be exact, depression will be number 1 killer after heart disease and not cancer. And suddenly 5,2 years more are not a blessing anymore. 5,2 years more seem more like an extended torture. As suddenly we have an increase of quantity in time but very poor life quality, if one can call this quality at all: the longer we live, the more we get depressed.

Did we forget what it means to live? If we cannot figure out what makes us happy in our lifes, if we cannot admit what it is that we need - even a hundred years of lifetime are not going to be enough. As a hundred years won´t make a blind man see and a hundred years won´t make us brighter. The moment we open our eyes, we will see that what we need is life and not a hundred years.

New York

Because even in the coldest winter, I feel warm.

Because even in the darkest night, there is light.

Because even when I feel lonely, I am not alone.

Because even when I have no chair, a stoop is my throne.

Because even when it´s noisy, I find some peace.

Because even when I feel suffocated, I still can breathe.

Because even on my lowest days, there is a smile.

Because even on a one way road, there is an aisle.

Because even when I hear nothing, I hear sound.

Because even when I fall, there is a ground.

Because even when I cannot stand, I lean against a wall.

Because even when I have nothing, I still have it all.

Flower Man

Walking down the road of life respecting everyone is sometimes appreciated but most of the time makes people comfortable enough not only to open up and let you into their world, but also to spill out more than one would wish for. One of the reasons can be that their world usually interests no one else but themselves.

Human beings are not half as well developed as their inventions. Maybe we should start spending more time on us before focussing on anything else. As a simple light bulb will never have the ability to annoy one as much as another personality could. On / Off doesn´t work for us.

Flower Man, a man I chose to respect, started the usual chatting and trying desperately to store his story in another humans closet. In mine. But then, very quickly, he tried to store most of his life which had the color of frustration. And this is a color I do not wear.

Therefore, dear Flower Man, this one is for you. So that you know that your story is stored, here on my blog. And everyone will know that you call yourself smart out loud and think that people who eat junk food are stupid. And I myself have no space for your frustration and will let you know again that the one who is smart, keeps it to himself and that organic food doesn´t grow at Wholefoods.

Dance Me

We might not speak the same language, we might not understand each other even if we do.

And when we try to speak, some might not listen.

But when we dance, we make some space for ourselves and share a monologue.

Join me or watch me - or leave.

Games

It is probably true that men love to chase women. And it is probably true that the more a woman seems uninterested, the more a man gets involved. The most effective way to seem uninterested is to be uninterested.

A woman who doesn´t care about a man, doesn´t try to be perfect. She is relaxed and comfortable with herself no matter what. She is just herself, which is attractive to most men. Why? Because it is less work for them. A man is smart enough to know that for one, it is hard day to day work trying to give you self-confidence that you are obviously lacking and two, that at the end of the day, self confidence needs to be built within oneself and cannot be injected by an outsider.

Once feelings start to take over the female personality, most of us care too much about everything we do and are. One would never choose pasta on the menu, as eating pasta without getting messy is as hard as avoiding under all circumstances to make a number 2 at his apartment. Fact is, none of it is avoidable. Sooner or later we would love to share spaghetti like in the Lady and the Tramp, and, yes, we would like to get rid of it if necessary.

All this is considered as part of the game, although games are supposed to be entertaining and I can´t see anything entertaining about a number 2 restriction. When did we stop having fun playing games?

Marilyn Monroe

Life

Life is easiness when your dreams are dreamed, yet time is not ripe.

- Wish.

Life is heaviness when you´re bringing your dreams to life,time is ripe.

- Hope.

Life is on its peak when your dreams become life.

- Fulfillment.

Notes from the Living Dead

Lin Yutang:

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Marie Curie:

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Voltaire:

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Albert Schweitzer:

I don´t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among

you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Emily Dickinson:

That it will never come again it what makes life so sweet .

Leo Tolstoy:

If you want to be happy - be.

Dorothy Thompson:

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

The secret of man´s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Japanese Proverb:

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Viktor Frankl:

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather

he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Einar Benediktsson:

How destitute is a heart that misses nothing.

George Sand:

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Edith Piaf:

Don´t care what people say. Don´t give a damn about their laws.

Paulo Coehlo:

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them,

Your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you´re happy.

Audrey Hepburn:

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

George Apollinaire:

Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said.

They came. He pushed and they flew.

Notes from the Dead

Male,13:

I know what I am doing.

Female, 49:

And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

Male, 74:

I married the wrong nag-nag-nag and I lost my life.

Female, 37:

To my father, Vincent M., the sum of one dollar.

Male, 52:

I feel I will not improve and can´t keep on causing you and the children so much misery.

Female, 31:

I must have been born to suffer.

Male, 40:

I am going to leave you forever because I am too sick to go on.

Female, 16:

I have wanted to go out with you and Dad but I was always to afraid to ask for I always felt the answer would be no.

Male, 45:

Cathy don´t go in the bedroom.

Female, 52:

I am so tired and lonely.

Male, 66 :

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored.

Female, 61:

One of the great ones is leaving this world when you want to and have nothing to live for.

Female, 59:

Try not to grieve.

Male, 53:

Ah! mon amie, je m´en vais enfin de ce monde, où il faut que le coeur se brise ou se bronze.

Female, 59:

And I shan´t recover this time. I begin to hear voices .

Male, 17:

Despair and depression, together they grow. Hope shall meet hopeless when there´s nowhere to go.