IF I HAD MY IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVELIFE TO LIVE

• It would have said little and listened

more.

• Would have invited friends it, though the carpet was spotted and the

stonewashed sofa.

• Would have eaten popcorn in the room of Would have eaten popcorn in the room of visits and worried me little about the dirt visits and worried me little about the dirt

when somebody wanted to light a fire in the when somebody wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.fireplace.

• Would have had time to listen to my grandfather remember its youth.

• Would have never insisted so that the windows of the car were closed in a

pretty day of summer, only not to undo my hairdo.

• Would have lit the

candle sculptured

in rose form before it

aged kept.

Would have seated in the soil with the children and not worried me in making

dirty.

• Would have cried less attending television and more living my life.

• Would have went for bed when I was sick, instead of acting as if the world was to finish, in

case that I did not leave home that day.

• Would not have bought

nothing solely for being

practical, not to show the dirt or being guaranteed for all life.

• Instead of passing the Instead of passing the nine months of nine months of

gestation desiring that gestation desiring that it arrived at the end, it arrived at the end, would have tanned would have tanned

each moment, each moment, recognizing that the recognizing that the

wonder growing inside wonder growing inside of me was a miracle of of me was a miracle of

God.God.

• When my children came to kiss me

impetuously, I never would have said

“Later. Now go to wash to have

dinner. “

• More “Sorry”

• It would have had more “I love you”

• But mainly, having one

second possibility of

life, I would go to join each

minute…

• … live it, and never to spend it.

• I would go to look at it and really to see it…

• I would have said to all my friends as I love them and need them!

Text of Erma BombeckAmerican Writer

(that lost its life in the fight against a cancer)

Produced By: Sallybel

Music By Enya: Only One Time

Free Translation By: Sallybel

Photos: Found On Line

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