you are...

"You can learn me..." - taken from the movie, The Constant Gardener





I'm not a big believer of the line "first impressions last..."
It's all too brief, too swift, too fast...

If you base your knowledge of one person from one encounter, one fraction of a moment...

we would be missing out on the best ingredients of that person and every precious time he spent.

You are more than one moment, one experience, one thought.
they don't know the complex battles you have fought...

You are worth more than one second, one minute, one hour, one day.
You are better than all the things they think about you or even say...

You are the words you speak...
that makes you strong and sometimes weak...

You are the walk you walk...
the work you do...
the memories you treasure...
the beliefs you value...

You are defined by your family, your friends...
your thoughts...your prayers...
your heart that often bends...

You are your needs...
You are your secrets...
your dreams...
your deeds...

To really know and experience you takes time...
to sense your every rhythm, your every rhyme...

to know you is to witness all your evolutions
the evolution of your happiness
the evolution of your dreams...
the movement of your sadness...
your stillness and your screams.

First impressions are just that and nothing but...
once you believe it, no one ever makes the cut...
the journey to the unfair begins...
and someone's true essence never wins.

In this fast paced world...it's rare for some people to want to carefully learn someone...
you are given not two moments, but just one.
no chance to amend, no chance to reveal...
a first impression is an unfortunate seal.

it's safe...it's quick...and out of the way...
nothing else to do, nothing more to say.

But whether anybody ever learns you or never at all...
the shots are always yours and never their call...

No one will ever know you the way you do...
The details of your life are those that make you, you...
and every single detail is important, by far...
because...
you are.