É um texto do Shane Koyczan- o mesmo autor deste fantástico filme contra o bullying.
Porque há dias menos bons. Porque nos dias em que as minhas palavras me falham, recorro a outras. Porque hoje é um dia assim.
“There will be bad days. Be calm. Loosen your
grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go. Be confident. Know that now is only
a moment, and that if today is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow,
today will have ended. Be gracious. Accept each extended hand offered to pull
you back from the somewhere you cannot escape. Be diligent. Scrape the grey sky
clean. Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen meant to blind us from the
truth, and the truth is, whether we see them or not - the sun and moon are
still there and always there is light.
Be forthright.
Despite your instinct to say, “it’s alright,
I’m okay” - be honest. Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse
or complexity. Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your oppose. If you
think for one second no one knows what you’ve been going through; be accepting
of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of
despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human
condition and that alone makes you a legion.
We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, we
dismissers of odds, we blessers of on – we will station ourselves to the calm.
We will hold ourselves to the steady, be ready, player one. Life is going to
come at you armed with hard times and tough choices, your voice is your weapon,
your thoughts ammunition – there are no free extra men, be aware that as the
instant now passes, it exists now as then. So be a mirror reflecting yourself
back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was too hard and
that you’d never make it through.
Remember the times you could have pressed quit
– but you hit continue. Be forgiving. Living with the burden of anger, is not
living. Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what
you need. Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed.
Be persistent. Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful
- because it doesn’t know it’s not supposed to grow there. Be resolute. Declare
what you accept as true in a way that envisions the resolve with which you
accept it. If you are having a good day, be considerate. A simple smile could be
the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. If you believe with
absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can - do more.
There will be bad days, times when the world
weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. There will
be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent pretending
that everything is all right when it clearly is not, check your blind spot. See
that love is still there, be patient. Every nightmare has a beginning, but
every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have called you. I am calling you
friend. Make us comprehend the urgency of your crisis. Silence left to its own
devices breeds silence. So speak and be heard. One word after the next, express
yourself and put your life into context; if you find that no one is listening,
be loud. Make noise. Stand in poise and be open. Hope in these situations is
not enough and you will need someone to lean on. In the unlikely event that you
have no one, look again. Everyone is blessed with the ability to listen. The
deaf will hear you with their eyes. The blind will see you with their hands.
Let your heart fill their newsstands, let them read all about it. Admit to the
bad days, the impossible nights. Listen to the insights of those who have been
there, but have come back. They’ll tell you; you can stack misery, you can pack
despair, you can even wear your sorrow, but come tomorrow you must change your
clothes.
Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry
it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the
belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when
someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us, it’s the only
way we know how to say, “Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly
now – let go.”
