That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards ; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are. 

"Celui qui combat les monstres devra faire attention a ne pas en devenir un lui-même" (Nietzche)

Almost over ... UN resolution 1701 has been agreed to by both Hezballa and the Lebanese government although it is unfair (No repercussions whatsoever on Israel ? What about war crimes ? What about Lebanese prisonners ? Chebaa farms ? Public health ? No, nothing ? )... Wait & See ! =)

Edit : (Principal ideas of the resolution)

The Security Council,

Welcoming the efforts of the Lebanese prime minister and the commitment of the government of Lebanon, in its seven-point plan, to extend its authority over its territory, through its own legitimate armed forces, such that there will be no weapons without the consent of the government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the government of Lebanon, welcoming also its commitment to a UN force that is supplemented and enhanced in numbers, equipment, mandate and scope of operation, and bearing in mind its request in this plan for an immediate withdrawal of the Israeli forces from southern Lebanon;

1. Calls for a full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular, the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations;

2. Upon full cessation of hostilities, calls upon the government of Lebanon and Unifil as authorised by paragraph 11 to deploy their forces together throughout the South and calls upon the government of Israel, as that deployment begins, to withdraw all of its forces from southern Lebanon in parallel;

3. Emphasises the importance of the extension of the control of the government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1559 (2004) and resolution 1680 (2006), and of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, for it to exercise its full sovereignty, so that there will be no weapons without the consent of the government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the government of Lebanon; 

12. Acting in support of a request from the government of Lebanon to deploy an international force to assist it to exercise its authority throughout the territory, authorizes Unifil to take all necessary action in areas of deployment of its forces and as it deems within its capabilities, to ensure that its area of operations is not utilised for hostile activities of any kind, to resist attempts by forceful means to prevent it from discharging its duties under the mandate of the Security Council, and to protect United Nations personnel, facilities, installations and equipment, ensure the security and freedom of movement of United Nations personnel, humanitarian workers, and, without prejudice to the responsibility of the government of Lebanon, to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence;

16. Decides to extend the mandate of Unifil until 31 August 2007, and expresses its intention to consider in a later resolution further enhancements to the mandate and other steps to contribute to the implementation of a permanent ceasefire and a long-term solution;

My people died on the cross....
They died while their hands
stretched toward the East and West
While the remnants of their eyes
Stared at the blackness of the
Firmament...They died silently
For humanity had closed its ears
To their cry. They died because
They placed trust in all humanity.
They died because they did not
Oppress the oppressors. They died
Because they were the crushed
Flowers, and not the crushing feet.
They died because they were peace
Makers. They perished from hunger
In a land rich with milk and honey.
They died because monsters of
Hell arose and destroyed all that
Their fields grew, and devoured the
Last provisions in their bins....
They died because the vipers and
Sons of vipers spat out poison into
The space where the Holy Cedars and
The roses and the jasmine breathe
Their fragrance.

(Gebran Khalil Gebran)

As long as I'm in a war zone, my life has meaning. I go for days without having a bath, I eat whatever the soldiers eat, I sleep three hours a night and wake up to the sound of gunfire. I know that at any moment someone could lob a grenade into the place where we're sitting, and that makes me live, do you see ? Really live, I mean, loving every minute, every second. There's no room for sadness, doubts, nothing; there's just a great love for life.

It's as if there was a divine light shining in the midst of every battle, in the midst of that worst of all possible situations. Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most unhumane. They run out under a hail of bullets to rescue a comrade, and at the same time shoot anything that moves- children, women- anyone who comes within their line of fire will die. People from small, provincial towns where nothing ever happened and where they were always decent citizens find themselves invading museums, destroying centuries-old works of art and stealing through things they don't need. They take photos of atrocities that they themselves commited and rather than trying to conceal these, they feel proud. And people who, before, where always disloyal and treacherous feel a kind of camaraderie and solidarity and become incapable of doing wrong.It's a mad world, completely topsy-turvy.

Vouloir sauver le Liban, c’est fort bien ; mais face à tant de hargne dévastatrice déversée sur ce pays, encore faut-il qu’il reste au bout du compte quelque chose à sauver. Or Ehud Olmert et ses ministres ne se gênent guère pour faire part de leur entêtement à poursuivre les opérations jusqu’à la réalisation de leurs objectifs ou l’arrivée sur place d’une force internationale. De son côté, le Hezbollah se dit déterminé à combattre jusqu’au départ du dernier soldat israélien. Et faussement navrée, Condoleezza Rice se résigne à l’idée que pendant un certain temps faut s’attendre à des escarmouches. Merci du peu !