dear life 86
dear life,
this morning i am having a hard start, a really hard one - don't ask why and what, that is off the question - anyhow, then i open Shargh newspaper and on the cover page of its thursdays' supplement - Cafe Shargh - i read this one sentence: "a best friend is a dead friend." i read inside, the sentence is apparently by Albert Camus from La Chute; the rest of the article reads as touchingly and funnily: a best wife, husband, son, ... are all dead ones. as i read on and the writer "Seyed Ali Mirfattah" goes on with his own justifications, i am building in my mind my very personal picture: probably being dead is the safest choice possible to an alive person (hey, i like that sentence!); if you are dead you won't have to make decisions; if you are dead you won't make mistakes; if you are dead you won't risk; if you are dead you won't hurt anyone, most importantly yourself; so it is no wonder that you'll make the best friend, the best husband, wife, daughter, etc. but then again, where would lie all the joy and excitement (besides the misery and the hardship)?
i am writing this and a friend calls. he sounds down although he laughs. i ask him why. surprised that i have noticed, he tells me that a friend of his has passed away and he has received the news late last night in an email! he misses his friend - no, he didn't say the passed-away friend was his best one, sorry to disappoint you! anyway.
ps. i had another thing heard of the dead a few days ago. my editor and I were going through the final draft of my book translation when he told me: "don't be so silly. be a little creative. i read this sentence a few days ago from ... [i don't remember the guy's name, i have to ask him again]: 'the only truly fluent language is the language of the dead.' i loved the sentence, i am thinking of making it my moto; so stop being so goddamn strict and inflexible." so, you see, the dead even have a safer language!
seems, we alive people have infinite problems, the final solution to it all DEATH!!
pps. i just remembered another quote about the dead - don't remember where i read it, i have to look that up too - i liked this one a lot a lot: "even to be dead, you need to be alive!" i love this one. one for the alive finally!
this morning i am having a hard start, a really hard one - don't ask why and what, that is off the question - anyhow, then i open Shargh newspaper and on the cover page of its thursdays' supplement - Cafe Shargh - i read this one sentence: "a best friend is a dead friend." i read inside, the sentence is apparently by Albert Camus from La Chute; the rest of the article reads as touchingly and funnily: a best wife, husband, son, ... are all dead ones. as i read on and the writer "Seyed Ali Mirfattah" goes on with his own justifications, i am building in my mind my very personal picture: probably being dead is the safest choice possible to an alive person (hey, i like that sentence!); if you are dead you won't have to make decisions; if you are dead you won't make mistakes; if you are dead you won't risk; if you are dead you won't hurt anyone, most importantly yourself; so it is no wonder that you'll make the best friend, the best husband, wife, daughter, etc. but then again, where would lie all the joy and excitement (besides the misery and the hardship)?
i am writing this and a friend calls. he sounds down although he laughs. i ask him why. surprised that i have noticed, he tells me that a friend of his has passed away and he has received the news late last night in an email! he misses his friend - no, he didn't say the passed-away friend was his best one, sorry to disappoint you! anyway.
ps. i had another thing heard of the dead a few days ago. my editor and I were going through the final draft of my book translation when he told me: "don't be so silly. be a little creative. i read this sentence a few days ago from ... [i don't remember the guy's name, i have to ask him again]: 'the only truly fluent language is the language of the dead.' i loved the sentence, i am thinking of making it my moto; so stop being so goddamn strict and inflexible." so, you see, the dead even have a safer language!
seems, we alive people have infinite problems, the final solution to it all DEATH!!
pps. i just remembered another quote about the dead - don't remember where i read it, i have to look that up too - i liked this one a lot a lot: "even to be dead, you need to be alive!" i love this one. one for the alive finally!
posted by friend @ 3:08 PM
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