Legacy in living

It is interesting, most of this year's commercial now has a flavoring of embracing and/or initiating change from the youth's perspective. But the words for the pictures still come from old style poetry. Stumbled on this poem from Charles Bukowski while watching an Eastern European Levi's ad. I believe it speaks to  all of us who are going through the throes of change in our Malaysia.

Indeed it is our life. It is our country and if we do nothing now thinking that it will change for the better by itself, we are mistaken. We are now at a moment in time where our actions will have direct impact on our way of life in this millennia, and resonate into the next millennia.

Will you go forth to live with a difference? I will.
Will you live a life that offers light in darkness? I will definitely try.

The Laughing Heart (Charles Bukowski)

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.