If I could live my life again in the next
would try to make more mistakes
not try to be so perfect, I would deny
more
I would be less serious than I was,
fact would take
very few things seriously.
I would be less hygienic,
run more risks, take more vacations, contemplate more
sunsets, climb more mountains, swim more rivers,
would go to more places where I've never been, would eat more ice cream and fewer beans
, I would have more real problems
and less imaginary.
I was one of those people who lived sensibly and
each minute of his life;
course I had moments of joy, but if I could go back I would try
to have only good moments. In case you did not know,
of what life is made only of moments;
you do not lose today. I was one
of those that never went anywhere without a thermometer
,
a hot water bottle, an umbrella and a parachute
, if I could live again
would start going barefoot in the early spring and continue until
late autumn.
I would take more turns in the wheelchair
contemplate more dawns, and play with more children,
if I had another life ahead of me.
But look, I am 85 and I know that I'm dying.
jorge luis borges
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