GET DRUNK

En dag surfede jeg lidt rundt på internettet og faldt tilfældigvis over denne lille tekst. Jeg synes det er et smukt stykke arbejde og jeg er så inspireret af teksten, at jeg tænkte jeg ville dele den med jer.

Teksten er skrevet af Charles Baudelarie og hedder "Get drunk"

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters;
that's our one imperative need. So as not
to feel time's horrible burden
one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down,
you must get drunk without cease. 

But with what?
With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.

And if, at some time, on steps of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the bleak solitude of your room,
you are waking and the drunkenness has
already abated,
ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the
clock,
all that which flees,
all that which groans,
all that which rolls,
all that which sings,
all that which speaks,
ask them, what time it is;
and the wind, the wave, the stars, the
birds, and the clock,
they will all reply:

"It is time to get drunk!

So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,
get drunk, get drunk,
and never pause for rest!
With wine, poetry, or virtue,
as you choose!"

Misforstå mig ikke. Nu synes jeg ikke, at alle skulle forblive beruset i vin hele tiden. Men jeg finder dog ordren "get drunk" for at være utrolig inspirerende. Hvis bare vi kunne finde den glædelige tanke ved at være beruset i alt hvad vi gør. I at skrive, i at elske, i at grine.

Så jeg spørger dig: Er der noget i dit liv som gør dig beruset? Og jeg vil kraftigt råde dig: Hvis du svarer ja, så hold fast i det og fejre det… Hvis nej, find det! Du vil blive så glad for, du fandt det.

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