13 Goals for 2013

Thirteen goals are quite a lot, but I get the feeling that this year I have to get down to finish some things I have been postponing for years.

Evaluating 2012

It has definitely been a fun year, full of new adventures, experiences and people. It also had it's ups and downs, but I am glad to say that by the end of it, it turned more towards being better than worse.

Or so I think. 

Zweitausend zwölf

So the evaluation about last year is over, now it's time to see what goals I can reach this year!

Last year's resolution

So, last year, I wrote my resolution about 2011. It's time to check if I succeeded,or not in fulfilling my goals!

Zweitausend elf!

2011 is here! We are marching steadily into a new decade, hopefully one that will bring happy and exciting things in our way. ^^

And I, yesterday during New Years Eve, was very troubled about many things. My future, my wishes, the road I have chosen and many others..

So, I will try something, I didn't last year. A list of goals for the upcoming year. I know that time is running pretty fast and maybe I won't accomplish everything, but at least I can try!

So here it goes!

1. Apply a schedule to my messy day - one that I will keep -- most of the time!
2. that means waking up every morning at 8-9 am
3. study, study hard and finally get rid of all those classes I still have to pass!
4. defeat my incurable laziness and work out regularly
5. stop eating sweets and chocolate all the time
6. learn proper German
7. visit my homeland, Switzerland
8. exercise my drawing
9. read that endless list of books-i-want-to-read
10. go on holidays this summer
11. start a business (?)

Yeap, that's 11 goals for 2011. If I manage to accomplish the top 7 of them, I will be very happy I tell you..

So, wherever you are, have a wonderful year full of happiness, health and.. yeah wealth (we live in troubled times so..). Pursue your wishes and dreams, do what you love. Live your life!

:: Feliz Navidad ::

Dreamers

As I Grew Older

As I Grew Older     

It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun--
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky--
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!

Langston Hughes

Dreams

Αυτή την φορά πρόκειται για παραπάνω από ένα ποιήματα, κυρίως λόγω του κοινού θέματός τους. Είναι μερικά από τα αγαπημένα μου. :)

A Dream

In visions of the dark night
    I have dreamed of joy departed--
But a waking dreams of life and light
    Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
     To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
    Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream -- that holy dream,
    While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
    A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' strom and night,
    So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
    In Truths day-star?

1827. Edgar Allan Poe

 A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less _gone_?
_All_ that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
_One_ from the pitiless wave?
Is _all_ that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?.

1849. Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes