Your Life is Your life: Go all the way - Charles Bukowski
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- This is a combination of 2 poems made by Charles Bukowski
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Writer: Charles Bukowski
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For those of us that have raised ourselves, this is the conversation we have missed from our fathers and grandfathers.
😢
True!! I don't meet others who raised themselves. Nice to know I'm not alone. Though sad too.
@@SunnyDlite84 me too, and it's only just hit me, I raised myself 😢
zx6r79: Word👌
I Am.
Peace brothers and sisters.
I wish all of us find each other one day with an open pure heart because we know the value of love and we can give it to each other unconditionally.
And when nobody wakes you in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
-Charles Bukowski
Personal Freedom. ✨❣️✨
A bit of both.
amazing quote, thank you !
From Rodger Waters in an interview, Wish you were here is often misinterpreted as being about someone else, and that works and is understandable, but really it is about your own naivete and innocence that you trade in over time, or lose even, through experiences, or "life"...
TLDR- "Did you exchang,e a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"
Throwing Away The Alarm Clock
by Charles Bukowski
my father always said, “early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise.”
it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.
my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.
taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.
now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered
the world but I’ve avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people
one of whom
was
myself-someone my father
never
knew.
My father said he love the poetry of Robert Frost, "The Road Less Traveled" we traveled that road, along with my adventurous mother and my pet dog, we lived in many foreign countries, places which were at that time virtually unheard of, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Italy, Bahamas and others, My father was always employed and had a good income, he was loved by people, when he returned to the USA, after serving our country in foreign service for US Dept of State, more than 50 years abroad, he said it was a country he barely recognized, the lack of community, the lack of manners He loved our country , we all do. We need to do more to humanize our nation, we need to change the curriculum for the generation of children destroyed by their parents drug abuse or absence. Teach them to speak standard English, learn manners, and improve our schools, they need safe places to live, affordable places.
You said that like it’s up to everybody to wake late. If you have to work for a living you can’t choose to up late.
@@moskva-kassiopeya ...find a different job that allows you to wake up late....
Do what you want I don't care but your father sounds like a dick.
@@moskva-kassiopeya If that is the only thing stopping you from creating, from following your bliss, from doing what you love, then change the job. If you cannot change jobs bc of economy or circumstance or location, then change your circumstances or your location! As a woman over 40 in America it is very non-egalitarian for me. I have manifested from nothing, for 4 decades of my life, a more egalitarian circumstance for myself in a sea of "no egalitarianism" but manifesting that daily for myself inside a nation that hates women, that neither supports me or recognizes me as a human being but only as a gender... That is not the answer for me. So I can stay or I can leave... my choice is to leave (moving to Germany this year). To each of us, the question is always the same: How badly do you want what your heart tells you is your path? "Your Life is Your Life, don't let it be clubbed into dank submission..." simply because the STORY you're telling yourself right now is a negative one...That's NOT your story, it's someone else's story that you were fed as a child. Other people's stories are not yours. Tell the Story of Your Life as you Want it to be, and not how it was 5 minutes ago. Every morning you will decide who you are when you wake up. Choose Your Life and no one else's, and if your bliss means changing jobs to a 2nd or 3rd shift, or moving to another city or another country, so what? ........ "DO IT! ....It's the only good fight there is."-CB
He also said, "If you let them kill you they will." He was right. Protect yourself. Learn to say NO. He also said, :"Sometimes you have to just piss in the sink." I love this guy.
100% ...
ahahahaha 1000%
sometimes you just have to pee in their sink
the phrase "You can't beat death, but you can beat death in life"
is one of the most profound statements I've ever heard.
Lewis C "Its the only good fight there is"
i'm agreed
It's a good line, but it's difficult to do anything with it. The lines that follow are those that offer direction how to do this: "and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be"
Don't just think a big idea, repeat using it every day just a little at a time. Beating death is a pretty big concept after all! Take it a little at a time and get better at it every pass. And even we agree on this, the form of this action won't be the same for any one of us, so we must ask - what's my own way of beating death in life, a little bit at a time? Answer this and your profound experience will be complete.
I don't really understand it. Can you please explain it to me?
Lewis C sometimes???
I changed my mind. Suicide is not the solution.
+Metehan, great. But don't forget that your mood is mostly determined by imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain: mood determines thoughts, thoughts barely affect mood. If you've already tried antidepressants, start exercising 5 times a week (force yourself to do it in the beginning), start eating healthy, look for a new hobby (like learning an instrument, a sport or a language), set a happy long term goal for yourself (like going traveling 3 years from now) and clean up your social life (by removing toxic people). If you fail to continue with one or some of these, then don't worry about it and just focus on the others. I did most of those things and they saved me from depression and addiction. Especially the healthy eating and daily exercising greatly improved me within a few weeks. Some people like jogging or cycling, but I prefer fitness because the body building also improves my self esteem. Good luck!!
Metehan Kaya do it Do it..just kidding I'm in a hard boat too but I'm curious if my future
Dont give up
It's not the solution, LIVE.
how could it ever be.
Hope you start making waves you enjoy surfing
Isolation is a gift.. I've come to love myself this year.
Took 27 years, and quite a few mistakes, but all the inherent self hate, and misery, isn't mine.
I'm glad I held on.
I'm glad I'm alive.
Zach McElroy Im glad you're alive too. And that you held on. You never know the good that awaits you in your future.
Im 17 and thank you for your comment. Was in a doubt about isolation u cleared it out.
Good Man !
@@aritrakrishna7379 I was about to say what u said.
But sometimes it's frustating and hit profoundly; triggers very ridiculous thought in mind nd end up thinking about nothingness..... But yeaah sometimes it provide wide space too to live your life in way that you want.
For a moment I thought that this was Bukowski's voice. It would be what I expected from the man in the photo, a raspy voice. It is a shame writers and poets don't record their work in their own voice.
maybe AI but this voice is so close to his voice if u watched his interviews
it says the speaker is Tom O'bedlam
Plenty of reading sessions he's done himself that you can find on RUclips. Later as he happened upon more money he stopped doing those. But lots of em out there from before then.
I feel like everyone needs an old man to narrate their life...
TO NARRATE OR TO INSPIRE THEIR LIFE..? There is a little difference on that.
Look up the truth about Morgan Freeman.
ruclips.net/video/yOJHZfINeps/видео.html
Lol
THIS old man.
There is a light somewhere
It may not be much light
But it beats the darkness
“You can’t beat death, but you can beat death in life...”
What a great line.👍
🙏😌
Actually you can beat death. Bv realising you were never born to begin with.
@@teddyboef2821 yea, that's what "but you can beat death in life" means (for example) I think. It's a very weird line, it's greater than simple logic, that's why it is so great. Definetely deepest line in the poem(s)
that line... whish people would know it, instead of getting their lifes screwed by that excuse of a pandemic... guess I'll listen to 'genius of the crowd next'... and then come back here probably, he
"The gods wait to delight in you."
I want to believe it now more than ever, Charles.
You are infinite my friend.
There is no such a thing as god , humans need hopes to get something what they need so they creat as by there own fantasy
@@huwballbot3978
God means the Soutce we obviously came and exist from somewhere.
@@huwballbot3978 go away HITLER!
@@haze_the_alchemist1123 Believing in God implies you gave up curiousity. Sad
Laying in bed staring at the ceiling at 5 am, couldnt eat for 3 days with a broken heart this is making me cry, but I know these moments will mold me into a stronger person and to anyone else going through tough times: when you're at the bottom the only way is up, keep your head up and ride it out straight to perfect laughter.
Diverseyy hold on there man. you are stronger than you think
stay strong it gets better
i hope you're doing okay
Diverseyy Hold fast, my friend. You will heal.
Diverseyy hit it and quit it
"You will be alone with the gods
And the nights will flame with fire"
That image is absolutely stunning. There are no words for the emotions this invokes
Inspiring. It talks to the soul
How far are you willing to go to know your path
Agreed. An intense, vibrant line.
do it !
I wonder what this phrase means though.. can someone explain?
Took me 15 years to realize alcohol was holding me back and preventing me to become my best version. Not anymore. I come here almost every day to watch this video. My life is my life.
Please never delete this. I come back here often and it always touches my soul and heart like no other poems could.
I always have to fight back tears when I listen to poems like this. Anyone else?
it's so deep broh..
@@scratchness5567 I am 63 now and Bukowski was my savior many a time and all the way
Yeah I feel the same, but you and I know why.. Because we are not doing it, doing what we're supposed to do.. Start today if you haven't already!
Me too friend
I feel u....it's deep..and overwhelming
All of these words mean different thing to each one of us.
You are so right. Isn't that the meaning of each man being free to say what is in your true heart. And you are to take it for your self and what it means to you.
That is art
AR AD no better interpretation
AR AD Didn’t need you to inform everyone of the obvious,..duhhhh.
and also mean a different thing to the different persons we become all throughout different times of our life.
❤️🔥
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think
I'm not going to make it
but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you've felt that way”
❤️🔥
~ Charles Bukowski 😎
"Sometimes I bend over to tie my shoes, and when I stand up the day is over." -William S Burroughs. 🙃
IF you manage to get out of bed. It can take days, due to laziness or depression or lack of motivation.
Never in my 27yrs of living have I came across something so magnificent as this to the point where it's moved me so emotionally
I am 78 years old - and I feel exactly the same way.
Even with a lifetime of experience.
You discovered Hank very early in life; you're lucky!
When I feel a little bit sad I always come to this video to remind me that I must "go all the way" to follow my dreams :)
+Francisca Jeraldo Never stop going Francisca! Your positive actions, like this comment, make impacts all over. Create a life of your own and influence people in a good way
Do it do it do it u will do it
Francisca Jeraldo I've been going all the way. and started to lose relationships. that is why I lost my focus coz it hurts. I wanted to start going al the way again
there are no dreams in life. Dreams are illusions, constructs of our mind, in order to alleviate our pain.
Your Life, is your life :)
he is a legend .. when he say "do it , do it , do it " he entering into my mind slowly .. what a voice .. inspirational
I get goosebumps
Wasn't his voice
Bukowski, for me, is the most honest poet I have ever had the privilege to read. I love his stories, his autobiographical truth, and his comical harmonies. I only discovered him this year, and am totally hooked. Bless him!
reyis
You wouldn't happen to know what book of poetry this happens to be in, would you?
I wish it was Bukoski reading this. The way he spoke in his readings carried a certain energy to it that cannot be replicated just like the way he wrote.
"beautiful" is not enough to describe my feeling watching this..
same for me
Yea, right? It felt like seeing with his eyes. Damn what a man, i love this poem
roosevelta99 chills up my spine
roosevelta99 Same here !
Agree
I watched and listened to about.... 5,000 RUclips videos, however, this tops them all. All.
And death shall have no dominion. Do not go gentle into this good night. Dylan Thomas
Make it 5.000.000
great waste of life
This was about 250th on my list. Keep searching!
forgiveness denied Not when one is hearing the words Bukowski wrote! 😆
"Your life is your life" how can five simple words hold such powerful meaning
Just gave up every possession I have and moved across the country to chase a dream ...these words guide me
What would a human life be without emotions, words, music and poetry. This hit me like a gust of wind and raised me up above my everyday BS life. Great poetry makes you pay attention to the present moment.
Beautiful, respect.
AquariusRevolution you said it
Indeed dear fellow Aquariun
@Travis Rabble No- you are!!!
'Your life is your life, know it while you have it'.WOW, Magic words
I've lost a lot by going all the way, but I have found nearly everything because of it, the hidden treasure in one's own soul!!
YES
Everything is worth of loosing in this life to get that which is eternal,it is hardest path,full of blockades in every corner,but once u realize yourself,there is nothing that can stop u,even nothing itself.
Hey you reading this!
I just want to tell you that no matter how hard your life may seem right now, you are gonna fight through it! You are gonna make it, whatever your dreams or goals may be, you are gonna make it! You only have one life, embrace it! Never give up, stay strong! And have a beautiful day!
And to you who wrote this: may you’ve gone All The Way on your journey. It’s been 4 years since you said this… I hope you’re still in this world.
Isolation is a gift✌
amen
INDEED.
Why? Is it because in isolation you'll know more about yourself?
Yes. You'll understand how life works, what's better for you and others but I guess im still looking for a deeper meaning why he said ”gift" although I get what you mean when you're alone you'll understand what's really going on with you
H Rad maybe he just means that from enduring the other stuff, isolation became a gift?
Genius!!!!
I discovered bukowski when I was 15. Saved me in my life. Just last week I discovered Alexander port a true calling and it made me pick up a book by bukowski. Just great.
Found this shortly after being made redundant. I was on the edge of despair, about to tumble into a black hole of my own making. Thanks for uploading this ! It has helped take the edge off the sadness
Hope you are doin ok now and things started to look up 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Hope you’re well.
When u are in black hole,then became black hole itself,absorb everything around u,untill thers nothing left that is not u.
Facing some possible jail time in a few months, needed to hear this.
The greatest prison is always inside our minds.
Mandela did 20 years and changed the world.
If you do end up inside, serve your time, and change your life.
It will not be easy, but it's the only life you have.
If I was in jail I'd try to teach myself like Malcolm X. And train in calisthenics and become a strength-functional god who's smart as fuck.
You are what you make of your experiences - good or bad.
what did you do?
Jam Jox Mandela was a terrorist who changed the world for the worse. Look at south Africa now. You have Mandela and his ilk to thank for that.
i type this with tears in my eyes....second poem may be the most profound thing ive ever heard
:')
Why do people say that so much now? Glory? Attention? Why have people become so fake?
A real knot in my throath to hear this man who lived a terrible life in many aspects and then gave humanity this beautifull words of hope and wisdom.
I always think about these words of him when I feel like I don’t wanna live anymore and feel deeply hopeless it is unbelievable when you realize how he understands and shares it all I don’t have enough words to thank him one of the greatest souls...
"I don't fight because I want to win, I fight because I have to win"
-Unknown
Ichigo whilst fighting Ulquiorra.
"A good idea, is a good idea forever" - David Brent
"go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the night will flame with fire."
god that is soo beautiful
This poem made me take all the important and hard decisions of my life.
I knew it several years ago. I forget about it each time. But in a dark night, God might remind it to me, each time. At the good moment.
And eather it makes me do, eather it makes me be proud of what I did.
Full of hope
Something inside me broke long ago. And it will never get fixed. Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning, in those moments I come back to this and it makes me feel better, there's hope. But more than that, this makes me feel completely insignificant. At this point all I can do is feel gratitude. In the middle of the darkness, in a mostly hostile world, I have found unbelievable beauty and love. This moments are worth living.
Beautifully stated. I empathise deeply. I sincerely hope that we both find peace, in this world or the next. X.
I mistakely clicked on this video,wow i got chills listening to him
its not charles talking...nowhere even near...
There are no mistakes friend.
What a legend! Gave me goosebumps specially second poem!!
No doubt - he just lived it.
He will always be the poet of my soul.
I wrote these poems on paper and paste to board and read daily from February 2020 to now. It gives great enthusiasm everytime I read them.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.... amazing
I feel like the actual gods have guided me to watch this video and hear this amazing composition. Guess my already broken soul feels the healing powers of truly amazing poetry. What a great character Charles Bukowski was. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Teodora B. No it was the amazing RUclips algorithm
@@avi-ventures maybe there is a god of RUclips, you never know😄
Belief is all we need
these two poems changed my life..I listen to them whenever I reach my next goal in life..he is my mentor..and this is the power of poetry
I don't know how many times in all these years I have had to come here and listen to this to be able to get up, every year it becomes more difficult to fight for the dream, and every time the uncertainty and chaos cloud my vision more, but this video is always there for me, giving me strength and above all faith, faith to go on. thank you for this...
"and it will be better then anything else you can imagine"
Black Moon let's see
it is... and yet after knowing it, all you can know is that there is nothing better, but you can't recall it, just be there again.
As Rumi says:
I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
Post Office is still one of my favorite novels - even after all these years. there is only one Bukowski.
The sheer potency of this exhortation cannot be matched.
Bukowski wisdom!
His read, his voice, his poetry is so rich. "Roll the Dice" was so powerful, I wept yet listened so many times, as he is generous and beautiful with his words. "You will ride life to perfect laughter". "Your life is your life, know it while you have it", powerful.
@@DeuceDevil It was lovely, but no worries.
Idk what led me here, but I'm glad it did. I needed this right now. Good luck to everyone in their lives. We sometimes forget ourselves and lose our way. Remember yourself and treat yourself kind.
Heard this incredible piece and looked for it's writer. I was expecting an composed man who had life figured out. Turns out he was an alcoholic who had a rough life. Weirdly I find that comforting, seems more fitting in my opinion.
"you'll be alone with the gods,and the nights will flame with fire "
wow only Bukowski can write something so true and badass in the same time
Waking up on a park bench as a 25 year old man with no education, job, caring family, apartment or money and suffering from health problems was an eye opening experience. Then you really are alone with the gods. Now in a slightly better situation, but my mindset has vastly changed from what I used to believe. But I learn the hard way, always have and always will.
Understanding him and his body of work, as a statement, this gives me chills every time I hear it.
I just hope Nike don't take this up as an ad.
dingoswamphead that made me giggle
This is the kinda shit Shia Lebarf wishes he could come up with
Vvvvbhhu
Como aprender
Abordar
Levis already did about 8 years ago
It’s one of those rare videos were i want to like the video a zillion time. Everytime I watched it,it always completely enchanted me like its my first time watching it. Maybe it’s the voice that sounds like an old man who has experienced life and is sitting right next to me and speaking to me,imparting wisdom. Idk,i just can’t get enough of it
This is so true...spoken by someone who has experienced TRUTH! That passion for what you believe in will sometimes set you against the world and that is OK!
Something about his voice and mannerisms just adds to the profundity of everything I've ever heard from him
This is the best speech I've ever heard. I cried when I heard it
I made it Bukowsky maybe simple but made my dream come true in a way..I didnt slept in a park but there was a tme I was smkong half smoked cigarettes I found in the streets..I was so short but I kept going because your poem is my guide for years..I will go backto my family soon , but I made it ,I am a very different person right now..Following our dreams and going all the way is the biggest challange a man can do...
I’m an extreme person when I first heard this in my 20’s it made me feel powerful. I’ve pushed dangerous things bc I knew it was the only way I could heal and I don’t have long to live so I enjoy everything even if it kills me. I have insane faith in myself. Thanks Charles one day I will tell my story bc you’ve helped me.
bukowski knows whats up.!
79JOM1
Sure does
He stayed in my town n area 👍 San Pedro and Torrance. We know pain lol and ego
He was a beautiful beautiful man. Thank you for your words. "The gods delight in you" thank you charles🙏🙏
Everytime I feel like everything is falling apart I come back to this video. It makes me goes through life.
Whoever wrote this, you’re a beautiful soul. Thank you for sharing with my children my family myself and the people that are my friends that I will give it out to you. Thank you simply, thank you
The two best poems of the 20th century.
I've watched hundreds of inspiritaional videos over the years, but this one is by far the most truthful, and thus, the best.
You da man, Charles.
I'm starting a new job tonight and I'm scared, but I came here for his words of wisdom...
Courage.
This is exactly what i needed to hear.. Not just today, but for the previous 34 years of life.
I watched a documentary on Charles Bukowski the other night,I did not know his story as such.There were times when I thought he was a misogynist git and times when I was so overwhelmed with compassion for the suffering and humiliation he went through by the hands of his father and the lifelong scares that left.He determination and compulsion to write even when working long shifts in a post office that left him physically pushed to his limits,utterly moved me.Like many of us he was a complex mixture virtue and vice and I think this quote is beautiful from someone who really knew what darkness was.I will go and read some of his other writing as well.
Upenda Sana hollywood is a good book .
wise words we all need to hear. great man.
Ryan Smith
Yeah i just hear them but i dont really do anything...
Yes, men are great, always have been. Do not let a female shape your life, never. Follow your dreams, not hers 👍 good luck kid
@@roguespiral Go for a hard run, wake your ass up. Sweat, feel pain on purpose, dont stop till it's over 👍
This coming from a Jag off who worked in a post office mail room for like 20 years ..... fuckin hypocrite
@@drtyluver1422 yup
made me totally cry.😢 Bawled my heart out. This is the first time i heard/read this words from great Bukowski...(thanks Chris from minnow pond for sharing this)
This line. Hits home for me✨❤️
... " Be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but...
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them..." 😔
It's just life been really sad and difficult lately. I'm hoping for that light to come.
One of the most difficult things is to dedicate yourself to "what" it is that both your intellect and soul is screaming out for you to accomplish.
Dear Charles, You delightful drunk. Thank you for your words.
Go All the way
ALL the way... ;)
I'm feeling a bit sad. And just like every time I came to this video to remind me that I must "go all the way" to follow my dreams" and "I must paas test of my endurance with 💯.
For those of you who disliked the video, you have no idea the kind of life Charles Bukowski lived. He is a true inspiration.
Bukowski chokes me up and this reader was born to recite him. Thanks Buk. Always my god.
And that's why he's one of my favorite authors
This poem helps me in the journey in sober life. Love it!
Arturs Arturs One day at a time. 6 years clean and sober. The program isn't for people who need it, it's for people who want it.
My brother... :) Hugs!
Amen.
@@rodneyharvey7780 Aye, but as anything, lots of bad in all
The author was an alcoholic.
Human beings beat death when they raise children ... The way Bukowski inserts "god" in this one is ... Just Sublime .
These are the words I needed to hear for such a long time. The moment I heard this I felt weak in the knees
This gave me life, on a spiritual journey so long, this gave me life again
So how its going now?
are you alive ?
Guy’s pray for me plz , let hope its going be fine with my life........ in the army i’m going all the way
The God's wait to delight IN YOU. I think this beautiful quote flew over most people's head.
God is within you. Not somewhere far distant away and always there to tap into.
Bless you Beautiful People.
thanks Charles, the man who wrote the line -"the carbon tips of Peru are lace in the fleece of my dreams" what great words...bruce
My heart clenched so bad. His words coupled with his calm mellifluous voice just hit the right notes. I found myself crying. Truly a gem.
"Your life is your life, don't let it be clubbed into dank submission ... ", it's like thunder, quick and massively influential. Damn it, it's Awesome.
How powerfully positive is the first poem. I'm sure it's reached people in the most profound way. Bukowski was the real deal and we miss him.
I first listened to this when my distant father was dying from lung cancer upstairs. This reading touched me deeply. I cried. I am so lost right now.
Neil Clark. Defeat defeat defeat eill help you now ....the natural EGO will intuitively direct that growth is possible and so towards healing THOUGHTS which will soothe the famished affections.IMAO and CHEERS AND G'DAY FROM AUSTRALIA MATE. :) Kill DEATH by living.
"go all the way"! Indeed. Synchronicities are leading me to this, to 'push on through'. Nothing left .
"It's the only good fight there is."
This man has changed the perception of life towards individuality.most powerful and sane thought ever had in this kind of world, I'm so glad that I came across legend bukowski yes I'm glad
It is 2024
And I always come back from the future.
Thank you for this.... I am listening to this video for long time ago