Some Days, All You Can Say is Thanks

Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto

me ha dado la risa y me ha dado el llanto

así yo distingo dicha de quebranto

los dos materiales que forman mi canto

y el canto de ustedes que es el mismo canto

y el canto de todos que es mi propio canto.**

These are the days when problems you’ve been obsessing about seem to solve themselves, when you work effortlessly with people you love and respect to accomplish something important in the world, when you can put aside your own pettiness and ego-driven obnoxiousness for the greater good–which is the same day that your heart is breaking because you’ll never see someone else that you love ever again and even though it’s been a while, some days it feels like yesterday, and all you can do is hope that if she’d had the chance she’d have told you something like this:

You must be who you are

You will find your way through

Though you still fear the dark

Let love come to you

You can trust in yourself

And love yourself true

I will be with you

I will be with you

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**For the less fortunate non-Spanish-speakers:

Thank you to Life, that has given me so much

has given me laughter and weeping

thus I distinguish between happiness and grief

the stuff that makes up my song

and the song of you all that is the same song

and the song of everyone that is my own song.