Scalewatcher Complaints

Jorge Luis Borges

Moments

If I could live another time in my life

next I would try to make more mistakes

not try to be so perfect, I would deny

more

I would be less serious than I was, in fact

would take very little seriously.

I would be less hygienic,

run more risks,

take more vacations, contemplate more sunsets

,

climb more mountains, swim more rivers

,

go to places I've never been,

eat more ice cream and fewer beans, I

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 to try to have only good moments.

If you do not know, what life is made,

just moments, you will not lose today.

I was one of those that never went anywhere without a thermometer,

a hot water bottle, umbrella and a parachute;

if I could live again begin to walk barefoot in the early spring

and continue until late autumn.

I would take more turns in the wheelchair, I would look

more sunrises 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.