hears a different drummer

„Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?“

Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau

Wandlung

Ich war einst ein Ritter

mit Schwerter, Lanze, mit Schilder

ich kämpfte um Siege

bei Turniere und im Kriege
Hab' gesehen, bin viel gereist
Einsamkeit war der Preis

Ich traf auch die Liebe

die wilde und die milde

zog aus die Uniform

schenke das Pferd und schwor Reform

Gehe nun zu Fuß

entlang dem Fluss

baue ein Heim

und lad' sie ein

Mein Herz ist deins

warm oder kalt

 „Ich kenne deine Werke, dass du weder kalt noch warm bist. Ach, dass du kalt oder warm wärest! So, weil du lau bist und weder kalt noch warm, so werde ich dich ausspeien aus meinem Mund.“ (Offenbarung 3.15-16)

coming home

- I came to say goodbye. I hear you're going home. I want to go with you, Gilda. Please take me. I know I did everything wrong...

- Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize because we were both such stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?

- Wonderful.

Gilda (1958)

Einsicht

Ich bin mir
meine frühere Fehler,
die berichtigt werden müsst,
bewusst
Vom jetzt an sein ich muss
umsichtig,
bei aller Lust
denn die Veränderung in mein'm
im ander'n Leben Konsequenz
genügt

being able to love

- Can you forgive me?
- For what?
- For making you live in hell
- The only hell is being unable to love
- That's all I have; being able to love

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Rosaspina

Die Schöne geküsset erwacht,
bekommt einen Lorbeerkranz

design your life

''For what it's worth, it's never too late,
or, in my case, too early,
to be whoever you want to be.
There's no time limit.
Start whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same.
There are no rules to this thing.
We can make the best or the worst of it.
And l hope you make the best of it.
l hope you see things that startle you.
l hope you feel things
you never felt before.
l hope you meet people
with a different point of view.
l hope you live a life you're proud of.
And if you find that you're not,
l hope you have the strength
to start all over again.''

Benjamin Button

don't worry

Things
you look for
happen
when you loose fear
and stop grasping