The Souls of Others - Akira the Don, Марк Аврелий

Concentrate

Every minute like a Roman

Like a man

On doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness

Tenderly

Willingly

With justice

And on freeing yourself from all other distractions

Yes, you can

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life

And stop being aimless

Stop letting your emotions override what your mind knows

Stop being hypocritical

Self-centered

Irritable

You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?

If you can manage this

That’s all even the gods can ask of you

Yeah, keep on degrading yourself

Soul

Soon your chance at dignity

It will be gone

Everybody gets one life

Yours is almost all used up

Now

And instead of treating yourself

With respect

You have entrusted

Your own happiness

Unto the souls of others

Unto the souls of others

Do external things distract you?

Then make time to learn something worthwhile

Stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions

But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct

Every thought and impulse toward are wasting all their time

Even when hard at work

Even when hard at work

Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls

No one ever came to grief that way

But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing

How can you not be unhappy?

Don’t ever forget these things

The nature of the world

My nature

How I relate

Unto the world

What proportion of it I make up

That you are part of nature

And no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it

Always

Yeah, keep on degrading yourself

Soul

Soon your chance at dignity

It will be gone

Everybody gets one life

Yours is almost all used up

Now

And instead of treating yourself

With respect

You have entrusted

Your own happiness

Unto the souls of others

Unto the souls of others