{"id":20889,"date":"2017-01-30T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=20889&lang=en"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:23:26","slug":"if-i-could-live-my-life-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/if-i-could-live-my-life-again\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"If I could live my life again."},"content":{"rendered":"

This poem is believed to have been written either by an American poet, Nadine Stair or Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine poet.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If I could live my life again.
\nNext time, I would try to make more mistakes.
\nI would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more.
\nI would be sillier than I have been.
\nI would take fewer things seriously.
\nI would be less fastidious.
\nAccept more risks, I would take more trips,
\nContemplate more evenings,
\nClimb more mountains, and swim more rivers\u2026
\nI would go to more places where I have not been,
\nEat more ice cream and fewer beans.
\nI would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.
\nI was one of those people who lived
\nsensibly and meticulously every minute of their life.
\nOf course I have had moments of happiness.
\nBut if I could go back in time, I would try to
\nhave good moments only,
\nand not waste precious time.
\nI was someone never went
\nanywhere without a thermometer, a
\nhot water bag, an umbrella
\nand a parachute. If I could live again,
\nI would travel more frivolously.
\nIf I could live again, I would begin
\nto walk barefoot at the beginning of the spring
\nand I would continue to do so until the end of autumn.
\nI would ride more merry-go-rounds,
\nI would contemplate more evenings and I would play
\nwith more children.
\nIf I could have another life ahead.
\nBut I am 85 years old you see, and I know that I am dying.<\/p>\n

 
\nFranz Kafka<\/strong><\/em>
\nAllan Percy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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