Do not live Half-Life

                            Half-Life
                       by: Kahlil Gibran

Do not love half-lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half-talented
Do not live half a life and do not die a half-death

If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse, then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal
is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half-truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you nowhere
Half an idea will bear you no results

Your other half is not the one you love
It is you - in another time
yet in the same space
It is you when you are not

Half a life is a life you didn’t live
A word you have not said,
A smile you postponed,
A love you have not had,
A friendship you did not know

To reach and not arrive,

Work and not work,
Attend only to be absent 

What makes you a stranger to them
closest to you and they strangers to you?
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being.
You are a whole that exists
to live a life, not half a life. 

     By: Kahlil Gibran