Which shouldn't exist....

Which shouldn’t exist in this world,

the one who forgets or the one who is forgotten?

Which is better, to love one who has died 

or not to see each other when you are alive? 

Which is better, the distant lover you long for 

or the one you see daily without desire? 

Which is the least unreliable among fickle things - 

the swift rapids, a flowing river, or this human world?”

~Izumi Shikibu

Try to.....

Try to learn to breathe deeply, 

really to taste food when you eat, 

and when you sleep, really to sleep. 

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, 

and when you laugh, laugh like hell. 

And when you get angry, get good and angry. 

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. 

~Ernest Hemingway