‚There is no other way‘ – Film von Strapless Society

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   skymaster

   24. Juli 2014

   Dieses Video hat mich berührt und in den Bann gezogen. Die Leichtigkeit ein Brett auf dem Wasser so zu fahren, ist unerreicht schön.
   Das verlesene Gedicht stammt von Charles Bukowski. Hier ist das Original:

   so you want to be a writer?
   Charles Bukowski, 1920 – 1994

   if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
   in spite of everything,
   don’t do it.
   unless it comes unasked out of your
   heart and your mind and your mouth
   and your gut,
   don’t do it.
   if you have to sit for hours
   staring at your computer screen
   or hunched over your
   typewriter
   searching for words,
   don’t do it.
   if you’re doing it for money or
   fame,
   don’t do it.
   if you’re doing it because you want
   women in your bed,
   don’t do it.
   if you have to sit there and
   rewrite it again and again,
   don’t do it.
   if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
   don’t do it.
   if you’re trying to write like somebody
   else,
   forget about it.

   if you have to wait for it to roar out of
   you,
   then wait patiently.
   if it never does roar out of you,
   do something else.

   if you first have to read it to your wife
   or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
   or your parents or to anybody at all,
   you’re not ready.

   don’t be like so many writers,
   don’t be like so many thousands of
   people who call themselves writers,
   don’t be dull and boring and
   pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
   love.
   the libraries of the world have
   yawned themselves to
   sleep
   over your kind.
   don’t add to that.
   don’t do it.
   unless it comes out of
   your soul like a rocket,
   unless being still would
   drive you to madness or
   suicide or murder,
   don’t do it.
   unless the sun inside you is
   burning your gut,
   don’t do it.

   when it is truly time,
   and if you have been chosen,
   it will do it by
   itself and it will keep on doing it
   until you die or it dies in you.

   there is no other way.

   and there never was.

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      Tobias

      24. Juli 2014

      Danke Skymaster! Ich habe auch nach der Quelle des Gedichtes gesucht und bin leider nicht fündig geworden. Ich hatte Bukowski bisher immer mit anderen Themen in verbunden. :-) Muss mir seine Bücher wohl noch einmal genauer ansehen.

      „There is no other way. And there never was.“ Einfach großartig!

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