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It circulates on social networks, particularly whatsapp, a video by Felix Radu, a young actor and writer who reads us his wishes for the new year that is just beginning.
The recording is by La 1ére, or La Première, a French network of radio and television stations operating in France's overseas departments and territories around the world.
Radu, in his words, has been writing for a long time. A long time, at 24, is almost half a lifetime. At first Radu wrote because he was alone, he says. He was small, shy, and his only friend was his notebook of poetry, "Les Contemplations" by Victor Hugo, and his shadow.
Now, let's hear his poem, humbly translated by this digital medium.
Wishes
I wish that time would only take away with it the bad memories. Let it leave its colours and its joyful roar to our stories.
Let him leave us our meeting and our first smiles, our silent disagreements and our noisy victories.
I wish you enough nostalgia to remember where you came from, and enough hope to always run to where you are going.
I wish you love, again and again. And then tears. What would love be without tears?
I wish you screams, passions, burns, separations. Games.
I wish you wrinkled sheets, flashes of light through a closed blind, tangled hair, night sighs, whispers under the blanket. Many "I love you" barely murmured, like a secret, and always in between cut off by stolen kisses.
I want you to be strong, to know how to say goodbye, sometimes to say goodbye. That you find enough space in your life to appreciate your absences, and to welcome new stories.
I wish you the overflow. May you be so full that you don't know how to share it with the world. I wish you to seek, but always fail. May you be dissatisfied. To reach for the moon, and desire every star in the sky
I wish you the resilience and courage to face the struggles of our generation. May you never give up, never give up. Or just put them down to support each other. And endure.
I wish we could meet again... finally. No matter where we are, to embrace each other. And find the essential that we have worked so hard to name.
I wish you meals. Laughs. Beer glasses, music and laziness!
I wish you uncertainty, and friends to enlighten you. Friends to share your darkness. I wish you to meet brothers and sisters across time and space. No matter the book, the time or the country, love them because they share your loneliness. Love them because they share the huge hole in your chest. Love them because they love you too. Love them because there is nothing else in life but love. And since life is a long and beautiful slide, I want you to fall, to resist the vertigo.
May you make your life a beautiful dance in the wind, a tragic struggle against gravity. That you join those great souls who knew how to fall with such panache that they managed, for a few moments, to convince us that they were flying. Fly.
Finally, I wish you a happy new year and a thousand dreams come true. Felix
The original French recording can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/100053282330220/posts/205530764566333/?vh=e
