Mika Antic - Mogucnosti

Possibilities

If you put a heavy burden on your back, you will walk stumbling
all morning. If you throw it away, you will fly away
with your feet.
It’s the same with the difficulty of learning.

A bunch of spring spiders laughed out loud
while she, carried by wind, listened to Chinese
proverb: » With time and patience the mulberry leaf
becomes a silk gown«.
So here, they said, we can, at any moment,
knit as much threads to cover the sky.

How to explain to spring spiders that it’s not
important to knit and decorate the air with beauty
of their knitting? What’s important is usage of the threads.
I’ve never worn a shirt made of spider’s silk.

That is why I trust more to a silkworm and
patient Heraclitus who believe that people
find big knowledges in small worlds,
and search for oblivion in bigger and common.
And I believe the French. List is all the way from Normandy.
Date 1726: “Even small rains eat big roads”.

Why do we say: useful and useless? Why
do we say: restless and peaceful? Like there is
man’s behavior, my son,
there is behavior of his thoughts.

I’d love to add something to Aristotle. For example
if he said: »Wisdom is the only science
which considers wisdom and not science”.
And in that case I would put his name under this as well, because
I need such postcard too: »Love
is the only art that considers love
and not art”.

Kjerkegor says: »There’s no Nothing Here
and There. There is only Something Everywhere and
Nowhere«.
And good old fellow Richard Bak wrote
under that something completely opposite.
They are both right.

This is what Bak says: »If our friendship
would depend on time and depend on space,
by overcoming them, we would ruin our
relationship.
If we overcome space, all we have left is Here.
If we overcome time, all we have left is Now.
And don’t you think that the two of us will,
on the marvelous road in between Now and Here,
still sometimes meet ?”

Now you understand, my son, that I will have to
explain some things to you.