ANTÓNIO MAGALHÃES
Corre meu
rapaz, corre, há muito caminho ainda a percorrer, e tu…tu vais vencer.
Espera aí…agora vais para a escola e vais aprender.
Corre meu rapaz, corre…não te deixes perder…
A esperança é a última a morrer, por isso meu rapaz, tudo o que tens a fazer, é correr, é correr.
Deixa a escola, que terás tu mais para aprender…?
Lembra-te, a corrida já começou e tu ainda tens muito para correr.
E, entretanto, acorda meu rapaz, está na hora de ires trabalhar.
Eu sei que ainda é muito cedo, e o dia nem sequer começou a raiar.
Meu amor, meu amor, o nosso filho em breve vai nascer…
(Diário das
pequenas reflexões)
António Magalhães
Run my boy, run
They put you in the starting line, but they forgot to tell you that the race had already begun. Before you even took your first step, you were already at a huge disadvantage, you started from behind.
Run, my box, run, there is a long
way to go, and you… You are going to win.
Wait, now you go to school, and you are going to learn.
And if you apply yourself well, if you devote this time to learning, even without knowing it, you are taking back time for the race you have to win.
Run my boy, run…. Do not let yourself get lost
But if school is not your cup of tea, or that nice cup of coffee in the morning that comforts you, or your favourite wine, relax, do not worry nothing is lost.
Hope is the last to die, so my boy, all you have to do is run, run.
Leave school, what more have you to learn?
Remember, the race has already begun, and you still have much to run
Run my boy, run, do not lose hope because this race can still be won. Only those who die lose hope, and in the meantime, it’s best you get back to work.
Think about that new phone you want to buy, the cool beers at night at the bar, all the girls you want to impress. Think about the car you are going to take them in for a ride, think about the hot summer days, maybe even with a joint. Think of the moonlit nights, in the back seat of your car with some of the girls you will be having.
In the meantime, wake up my boy, it is time for you to go to work.
I know it’s really early and the day has not even started to shine.
Life is like that, don’t be afraid, you will learn that in this complex world, we all have to work.
Run my boy, run, because one of these days, one of the girls you were having in the back seat will come and tell you,
My love, my love, our son will soon be born.
Confused and scared by the way it
all unfolded, you will realise then, that she was the one who was actually
having you.
Run my boy, run, the race has not yet come to an end, and life is like this anyway, after all, we all have to work,
You look at the clock hanging at the top of the wall and you really cannot understand, the clock seems to have stopped, but life passes so fast.
You have a family now, a house to support, a roof over your head, a lot of reasons for you to get up early. It is necessary to renew the furniture, and the car already needs another repair, there is insurance, contributions, the government, fiscal inspectors and other thieves.
Oh, by the way, there is the birth of a new day, the console you have to update and with the miracles of new technology, think about the number of games you can play. Think about the world where crying or laughing is an illusion that you can create for yourself, think about the hours you will consume in it, reality is much harder to bear.
Run my boy, run, do not stand so still, you know when they put you on the start line, the race had already begun.
Life is in motion even before your race began, and between the ups and downs of the path and time, sometimes it feels like you are always on an eternal climb. In all your efforts and in the one’s you are still thinking of doing, it seems to you that you never get to the top so you can get some rest and then start your descent.
But one day you will realize that it is on this costly and endless climb, while you get tired and you create illusions that won’t let you see past, that it is actually in this climbing that you have started your descent.
And now my boy, now that you can see the finish line, it is time for all your regrets to probe your heart, like the waves of the sea beating against the sand, but… come on… you always knew that death is certain and I know, I know you had so much left to run.
Oh, my boy, if only you had noticed the times where you had been lying to yourself, you would have realised that the race is not won in the distance travelled but is lost in the time you throw away.
(Diary of the small reflections)
Antonio Magalhaes

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