Many times I've walked through Budapest being struck by something I wanted to share. Here, I do just that. What follows are glimpses along life's path that had touched my heart. Enjoy! Budapest Daily Photos recently moved to its own home. The photos here may be enlarged by clicking on them unlike BudapestResources.com website, its previous home.
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
14 comments:
My goodness but this is REALLY blue. Isadore, are you the one who asked me about my post on Mazatlan? If so, the answer is Picasa, a google program. Very easy to use. Any more questions? Just send me an email which is listed on my profile.
Hi Kate - yes, I did ask, but if it is Picasa I'll skip it. For some reason, I simply don't get that program. Tried before and ended up abandoning the blog because I simply could not get the photos where and in the way I wanted.
Blue was just one of the things. I thought the whole thing was a hoot - the giant sized vehicle and giant size hand gesture - it just resonated.
That's fantastic!
The automatic finger, you gotta love it.
I'm dying to hear what the deleted comments were.
~Oswegan
OH THANK YOU OSWEGAN for restoring my faith. I thought it was funny too. Some people take offense and I simply don't believe in keeping anything negative around.
I've been thinking of sticking one of those to the the back window together with a sign that reads: "If you can see this, you are TAILGATING me, you *#&@ jerk. Back off!"
HA yet another person that thinks they have a pilots license/// aka flipping da boid
As a Californian driver, we are quite familiar with that gesture. I guess it's a universal sign no matter where you are. I guess if you drive a big blue truck, you can keep the gesture up and no one will challenge you.
quite a gentleman. :)
I would get out of the way....nice post.
That is what was so funny - the sheer size - it startled me when I turned around after taking a photo of the crane. Then the hand in the window - like, who would dare say anything or even think of challenging it? Don't know, it just struck me as very funny. But then, only this week I was the one who volunteered this list to my colleagues who were actually sitting around attempting to interpret the meaning of the word as used by their opponent in the negotiations.
Thank you all for visiting and for being an equally good sport.
Ou va le modernisme, un doigt automatique...pas très cool tout cela ;o) Fonzie ne serait pas content (il repasse 'Happy Days' en ce moment à la télévision française ;o) )
Or will modernism, a finger automatic ... not very cool ;o) Fonzie would not be content (he returns' Happy Days' at this moment in the French TV ;o) )
That would have caught my eye too.
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