14/12/16

The soil under your feet is comprised of the elements of

Sacrifice
Your predecessor was never the first in line of
Land
The days flow by with the notion of restoration of
Honour
Your title was never the first in line of
Existence

The innocent leave this earth in the name of
Freedom
Your hands were not meant to exert acts of
Annihilation

The result of catastrophes never ends in moments of
Equilibrium
Your predecessor, your title, your hands all comprise of
Potential

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11/11/2016

They don’t want me.
They look at me from their raised, uneven rocks
I’m drowning
It’s not the water, no.
Their judgement, cold and unforgiving, is immobile 
Their concept of land ownership goes back only a few generations
It opposes the constant yet unstable movement of tectonic plates under their very own feet

They say that I’m dirty, full of disease
They don’t even look at me in the eyes
What are they so afraid of?
Their invasion was set with intention of dominance and prosperity
They drew thick, uneven lines behind them and
Set threats of death upon trespass.

If they could draw borders on the seas’ end, trust me
They would.
I am not human to them,
I am merely a mass of blood, bones, nerves and organs
Foreign
A malignancy, a case of severe misfortune

Coming to their aid for survival,
Just like when they came to mine
Or
Did they?

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Of Cities And Women (Letters To Fawwaz) by Etel Adnan

'Greece leans towards goddesses. These create, with the gods, an ideal society : a projection of what women and men could be if they were what they are. In this world where the Mediterranean civilization blossomed, goddesses and gods are neither angels nor beasts, nor creatures of the happy medium. On the contrary, with bristled hair, they represent the actualization of all our potential, a maximal plenitude of life. They neither resolve nor avoid conflict. Passions burn in them with all the primeval fuel. It's peril and adventure up to the hilt. 
And we are probably moving towards a form of society similar in many ways to this ancient Greece.'




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Ode To The Old

Distant lands
Planned but wasted summers
Wash away the waves of my imagination

Soft, light silk
White, weightless
Fabric

Humidity, sweet tea, wine and a gentle breeze.

Just like our time
Youth comes in momentary glances;
It carries on without a warning or reminder.

Shadows of movement, dancing bodies
Imitating the core, the unwritten
Pattern of Fibonacci.

What are we?
But souls swirling through space and time
Part of an infinite microcosm

But the stories lost
Through the flames of Alexandria


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Random Ramblings

I don't know what I want to say really..It's these feelings of ''nostalgia'' of wanting to ultimately live my life to the fullest of my ability. 
I feel as if I want to absorb as much of the things going on around me as I can. 
I can try to travel, to read, to go to the cinema and theater, spend time with friends and family or simply wander in nature but I am not sure if it is me or my feelings. 
I feel as if there is so much beauty in the world that I want to experience and I want to contribute, even at a minuscule scale - it will still be part of my essence, my sacrifices - that I sometimes get overwhelmed and worried I won't have time to really do what I want before life “catches up” and any other ''responsibilities'' of growing older do for that matter.
I think it’s a realization that this time we have is so precious, fragile and uncertain that we take it for granted sometimes.


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Quote by Neil Gaiman

"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for." - Neil Gaiman

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06/05/16

Important enough to die for

Without It, there is no beginning or

End

Sacred enough to reach out and

Get lost for

Eternity

Humanity’s stories comprise of unlucky

Proximity

Speechless arms,

Still words

Tragic beauty

Our existence our

Unspoken

Intangible

Constantly

Amalgamated

Perplexity

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'Χαμογέλα, Ρε.. Τί Σου Ζητάνε;' - Χρόνης Μίσσιος

"Σκεφτείτε, κύριε, αν μπορούσαμε να ξέρουμε την ατομ
ική ιστορία, τα ονόματα, το χαμόγελο, τα όνειρα, τις αγάπες, τις επιθυμίες και τις δημιουργικές ικανότητες των εκατομμυρίων νεκρών των πολέμων, αν τους γνωρίζαμε σαν τ’ αδέρφια μας, σαν τους ανθρώπους που μεγαλώσαμε μαζί και ονειρευτήκαμε μαζί, τι διάσταση θα είχε για μας η ανθρώπινη ιστορία και πόσο άγρυπνοι και προσεχτικοί θα ήμασταν σε κάθε επιλογή της εξουσίας, σε κάθε ιδεολογική πρόταση… Αν η συνείδηση και η γνώση του ανθρώπου μπορούσε να φτάσει στο επίπεδο να ερμηνεύει μ’ αυτή την ανθρώπινη έγνοια την είδηση “εκατό χιλιάδες νεκροί” ή “ένας άνθρωπος βασανίζεται σε κάποιο άντρο της εξουσίας”


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Γραμμές

Ο πρώτος άνθρωπος χάραξε τη Γραμμή της Γης.
Οι μεταγενέστερες γενιές πήραν τη Γραμμή και, προεκτείνοντάς τη, καμπυλώνοντάς τη, διευρύνοντάς τη, σχημάτισαν όρια στο όνομα των Συμβόλων του εγωισμού τους.

Δικά Μας;
Έπαινος, συγκίνηση, περηφάνεια!

Δικά Τους;
Ντροπή, αηδία, διαφορετικότητα.

Ο εμπλουτισμός της ιστορίας προερχόταν συχνά από τα πάθη των ανθρώπων.
Η αλληγορία θα υπάρχει όσο θα κυριεύει ο φόβος, το μίσος, η άγνοια.

Αίμα;
Το ίδιο.
Όλων των γραμμών.

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Περισυλλογή από Νικηφόρο Βρεττάκο

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TED Talk : Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid by Guy Winch

'Our mind is hard to change once we become convinced. So it might be very natural to feel demoralized and defeated after you fail. But you cannot allow yourself to become convinced you can't succeed. You have to fight feelings of helplessness. You have to gain control over the situation. And you have to break this kind of negative cycle before it begins.'
'(...) Are you aware of how your mind reacts to failure? You need to be. Because if your mind tries to convince you you're incapable of something and you believe it, then like those two toddlers, you'll begin to feel helpless and you'll stop trying too soon, or you won't even try at all. And then you'll be even more convinced you can't succeed. You see, that's why so many people function below their actual potential. Because somewhere along the way, sometimes a single failure convinced them that they couldn't succeed, and they believed it'




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Why Some Of Us Don't Have One True Calling - Ted Talk - Emelie Wapnick

’(…) But it’s more than that. The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture. It’s this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.
But what if you’re someone who isn’t wired this way? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you’re curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. And so you might feel alone. You might feel like you don’t have a purpose. And you might feel like there’s something wrong with you. There’s nothing wrong with you. What you are is a multipotentialite. (…)
You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissance person. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines. Barbara Sher refers to us as “scanners.” Use whichever term you like, or invent your own. I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on a single identity.’ 



Ted Talk Here



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