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A video of Felix Radu, a young actor and writer who reads us his wishes for the new year that is just beginning, is circulating on social networks, particularly by whatsapp.
The recording is from 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 poetry notebook, "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 only takes with it the bad memories. May it leave our stories their colors and their joyful din.
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 where you're 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 crumpled sheets, flashes of light through a closed blind, tangled hair, night sighs, whispers under the blanket. Many "I love yous? barely murmured, like a secret, and always cut off by stolen kisses.
I wish you to be strong, to know how to say goodbye, sometimes to say goodbye. May you find enough space in your life to appreciate your absences, and to welcome new stories.
I wish you overflow. May you be so full that you don't know how to share it with the world. I wish for you to seek, but always fail. To be unfulfilled. To reach for the moon, and wish for 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, never give up. Or just put them down to support each other. And hold on.
I wish we could meet again... finally. No matter where we are, to embrace each other. And let's find the essential that we've tried so hard to name.
I wish you meals. Laughter. Beer glasses, music and laziness!
I wish you uncertainty, and friends to enlighten you. Friends to share your darkness. I wish you to know brothers and sisters across time and space. No matter the book, the time or the country, may you love them because they share your loneliness. Love them because they share the gaping hole in your chest. Love them because they love you too. Love them because there is nothing more in life than love. And because life is a long and beautiful slide, I wish you to fall, to resist the vertigo.
May you make your life a beautiful dance in the wind, a tragic struggle against gravity. May 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 may your dreams come true. Felix
The original recording in French can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/100053282330220/posts/205530764566333/?vh=e
