The Fire and the Rain? The challenge is to combine the two in such a way that it will take our breath away and sooth our soul at the same time.

Oh Fate! How easy it is to remember the ecstasy of yesterdays. How hard it is to evaluate one's disappointing experiences. We sing our songs, we listen to our favorite singers and yet we are all alone. How often we wish for just one more glimps of the loved one, to hear the voice that thrilled our soul. To see the shape that lifted us to the top of the mountain! To look into those charming eyes that guided us in our search for joy and fulfillment. The sentiments of September are summed up in this song of many years ago:

Summer roses,summer roses
You're so like her love for me
Sommer roses, summer roses
will disappear the same as she.

However, some of us live in two cultures, and we live two separate lives in two different countries, but the sentiments of the heart have the same melodies and similar words:

Chryzantemy złociste
Stoją na fortepianie
w kryształowym wazonie
koją smutek i żal.

Któż mi dzisiaj zanuci
tę piosenkę z przed lat
Kto na szyję się rzuci
Zcałuje łez mych ślad?

Chryzantemy złociste
uśmiechnijcie się do mnie
może zdołam zapomnieć
ukoić żal.

The first love, the romantic love, love that takes over the whole soul, is always full of pathos. One moment we feel we are on the top of the world and the next we are in the valley of dispair. We feel like on a roller coster of our emotions all the time, and we long for the safe and comfortable haven of steady friendship. These experiences can be called the "morning" of life, or the Spring of Life, and we long for the all consuming fires of love to continue endlessly and at the same time we also long for the softness of companionship and emotional sharing. We want to experience the thrills of the journey and the satisfaction of arrival. Only the living continue the search for unending fulfillment, then let us live!