I Am Vertical

                 by Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal.

I am not a tree with my root in the soil

Sucking up minerals and motherly love

So that each March I may gleam into leaf,

Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed

Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,

Unknowing I must soon unpetal.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal

And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,

And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimallight of the stars,

The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.

I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.

Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping

I must most perfectly resemble them--

Thoughts gone dim.

It is more natural to me, lying down.

Then the sky and I are in open conversation,

And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:

Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me. 

I sooooo need le weekend. my holiday.

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Today it's the national day of Romania aka Great Union Day; you may wonder what this stands for so here it is a short story of the events which took place:

"In the immediate wake of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WW I, on December 1, 1918, citizens of Transylvania, Banat County, Crisana County and Maramures County met in the city of Alba-Iulia and voted to join Romania. This was ratified in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and Senate on Dec, 29th. This act was internationally formalized by the signing of the Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920, between Romania and Hungary. This brought the three provinces of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania into the united kingdom of Romania.
Unification was first realized for a brief period in 1599-1600 under the rule of Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave). The dream of a unified Romania - linking the three primary provinces - remained until 1918."

Don’t judge me but I despise celebrating this day; I mean yeah, it was important in history and everything, but the way it is celebrated these days is just a degenerative thing which has nothing to do with the actual union.
To me, it’s a celebration of hypocrisy; today everyone loves this country all of the sudden. Today they forget about corruption, stupidity, lies, poverty and go to the center of their city only to be squeezed in a sea of humans, for some stupid fireworks which last for like 3 minutes and some stupid concerts.
Yeah, I am pissed off. I mean when is everyone gonna wake up? This is what you celebrate? And this is how you celebrate it? If there is anything you should be celebrating it’s reminding all the people who contributed to this country, who fought in wars, who actually made something so this crappy country could be at least ok. It’s the writers, the philosophers, the artists, the inventors who should be praised, not a mind-washing government.
It should be something symbolic and nice, not people running over each other. Maybe running movies about the history of Romania in cinemas; or running Romanian movies. All sort of documentaries about people who contributed to building the culture, personalities who built the history. There should be played the music of George Enescu, Ciprian Porumbescu and other classic music composers. There could be so many better things to do for peoples' entertainment instead of this joke called celebration. I'm trapped in here ;__;