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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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Translate   13 years ago

Leaving Why is it that you don't realise how much you love being at home when you're small? Is it because you are too young to know how safe and secure you are there? Or do you have to leave, experience the big bad world and finally come back? The funny thing is that if I could go back in time to when I left, I still would. I think everyone would.

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Martine Moeykens

Yes it's important to find your own feet in life. I think if u don't leave you would never become an adult.
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    Translate   13 years ago

    Ring A Ring Of Roses Ring a ring o roses, A pocketful of posies, Atishoo, atishoo, We all fall down. What most people don't know is that the meaning of the cheerful nursery rhyme is about death, the plague in particular. The first line refers to a ring of redness on the body which was one of the first symptoms of the plague. The second line refers to how people carried around herbs or flowers like posies in their pockets because the smell of dead bodies was overpowering in the streets or to superstitiously ward off the evil spirits that would give them the disease. The third line is kind of obvious, you sneeze. The last goes: we all fall down. It really means, we all fall down... dead. Sorry for this depressing, morbid fact, you might not hear that nursery rhyme again without thinking of the plague, but I thought it was quite interesting.

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    Razor Sharp

    This is the case with almost all old nursery rhymes and little fairy tales. It was a way of relating information to the younger generation through song and story telling.
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    pastel_notes

    @Freez really? Didn't know that, what other ones?
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    Matthew Maunder

    @smithphoebe Sorry to say this since I really wanted to believe it too but apparently it is just apocryphal (though a very popular belief) that this rhyme related to the bubonic plague. If I can find source on that I'll let you know but I recall that the argument against was pretty persuasive. I hate it when you hold into a factlet like that, just waiting to bring it up in conversation only to find out that it was never true :-( A music teacher once told me Beethoven was instrumental in the invention of the piano as the harpsichord was not loud enough and being deaf he couldn't feel the vibrations. Bastard teacher! I only found out this was nonsense after I wrote about it in some course work.
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      Translate   13 years ago

      Birds I wish I was a bird, I would wake before dawn, Watch the sun slowly awakening, And coax it above the sleepy horizon, Beginning it's day with the best thing it will hear until dusk, when we will sing again.

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        Translate   13 years ago

        Art "Filling a space in a beautiful way, that's what art means to me." - Georgia O'Keeffe

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          Translate   13 years ago

          You “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” - Dr Seuss

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