I wish first that you will love, and by loving be loved as well.
And if you’re not, be brief in forgetting. And by forgetting do not become resentful. I wish thus it won’t be that way, but if it is you will know how be without desperation.
wish also that you will have friends, and even if bad and reckless, and brave and loyal that at least one of them you can trust without any doubt. And because life is this way I also wish that you have enemies. Not too many nor too few. Just enough for you to ask yourself about certainties and that among them there’s at least one that makes you feel not so safe.
I wish after that you will be useful, but irreplaceable and that in bad times where there’s nothing left this usefulness will be enough to keep you standing.
I yet wish that you will be tolerant, not with the ones that are wrong, that’s easy, but with the ones that are often helplessly wrong, and by making good use of that tolerance you will make yourself an example for others.
I wish that you being young don’t grow up too fast, and by being mature don’t insist in being younger, by being old don’t dedicate to desperation because every age has it’s pleasure, it’s pain, and it’s need to be left streaming among us.
I wish that you’ll also be sad, not the whole year, but just one day. But in that day you’ll find out how good is the daily laughter, how empty habitual laughter is and how insane content laughter is.
I wish that you’ll find out with urgency, and above all in spite of everything that there are oppressed, unfair and unhappy people, and they are all around you. I wish also that you’ll caress a cat, feed a dog, and listen to a bird rising triumphantly it’s early morning song, because that way you’ll feel good for nothing. I also wish that you’ll plant a seed and watch it grow so you’ll know how many lives a tree is made of. I wish however that you’ll have money, because it’s needed and that at least once a year you’ll put some of it in front of you and say “that’s mine” only to make sure who owns who. I also wish that you don’t ever have to loose any of your loved ones, but if you do you can cry without being sorry and suffer without blame. I wish to an end that you being a man have a good woman, and that you being a woman have a good man, and that you have each other today, tomorrow, and the days after that, and when you’re exhausted and smiley that there’ll be enough love to start it all over again. If this all happens to you I have nothing left to wish you.
