Beograde, dobro jutro

23. Jul 1975

Good morning, Belgrade

(13) This morning the low sun cut the silk ribbon of the Danube and thus formally initiated the new day, the first day of the week.

(14) In front of the National Library there is a queue – for the tram.

There’s one in front of the National Museum too, for the bus.

(15) If you’re beating your children anyway, beat them for no reason, since all other reasons are stupid.

(16) What you dreamt was a dream.

And this is now reality – a beautiful, gentle, bright, warm, sunny day.

(17) This morning fools are overtaking idiots, because in front of the idiots some morons' tail lights are not working.

(18) The merry-go-round at Slavija* is working. Cars are spinning around the green island. In them are sitting former children, those who started their days on the merry-go-round beneath Terazije, in Tashmajdan and Zvezdara. (*large roundabout)

Remember, my friends, those distant and pleasant days and give each other a smile.

(19) This morning, the last day of September bloomed, and this evening it shall wilt.

It is Autumn, the season when small clay pigs are slaughtered and children’s savings stolen.

(20) Today in the Palace of Justice a good deal of justice shall be handed out. Anyone in short supply had better hurry.

(21) For one small, semi-developed country it may be a bit much to have all four seasons. We may have exaggerated there as well. One, maybe two, would be enough. But four is just immodest.

(22) Tuesday is a modest day. It could even pass without a name it’s so discrete.

The day after Monday or the day before Wednesday. On Monday, the previous week’s events are discussed and impressions sorted.

Wednesday is the real beginning of the new week.

And Tuesday is somewhere in between. Like some storage room for things and topics which are not used that often anyway.

Just like February in terms of months.

(23) This morning, the conductors on the city public transport are searching for passengers without tickets again. We would all get more out of it if they also checked our teeth and measured our blood pressure while they were at it.

(24) We can't live without other people. While one set of people creates problems, the other fixes them. 

(30) There is no nicer sight than two heads on one pillow. It's nice even when they're on the one pillow because they didn't have another. Every trouble that brings us together is good, and every good that separates us is bad. 

(31) It's hard to be a child and to ge good.

Utorak (24) Ne mozemo ziveti bez drugih ljudi. Jedni nam stvaraju a drugi resavaju probleme. (25) Ko nema u glavi ima u nogama, ko nema u nogama ima u banci, ko nema u banci ima nesto u Grockoj, ko nema ni u Grockoj - naci ce mu se nesto u mokraci. Niko bas nije da nema nigde i nista.  (26) Ko je jutros imao sreće da se probudi u Beogradu može smatrati da je za danas dovoljno postigao u životu. Svako insistiranje na još nečemu, bilo bi neskromno.

(27) Svaki novi dan je ili nagrada ili kazna za ono sto smo juce uradili.

(28) Ko ume da voli, ne bi trebalo nista drugo da radi.

(29)Sam covek ne moze ispuniti ovoliki dan.

(30) Nema lepše slike nego videti dve glave na jednom jastuku. Lepo je cak i onda kad su se našle na jednom jastuku jer nisu imale drugi. Dobra je muka koja nas povezuje i loše je svako dobro koje nas razdvaja.

(31) Teško je biti dete i biti dobar.

(32) Tesko je biti sam. Od toga je jedino teze kad su dvoje sami.

(33) Beogradjani volite Beograd, on nema nikoga osim vas.

(34) Muškarci su krivi za sve. Oni prave probleme, a žene ih samo radjaju.

(35) Ako ne mozete da ucite, ozenite se. Ako ne mozete da nadjete posao, napravite dete. Mali problemi se uvek uspesno resavaju vecim.

(36) Vi vredite samo onoliko koliko ste drugima potrebni.

(37) Žali nam se jedan prijatelj:

Ja sam lud što sam glup pa uvek ispadnem blesav.

(38) Ne trcite za zenama, da se ne sudarite sa onima koji od njih beze.

(39) Volite se kad niste zajedno. To je prava ljubav. Ko ume da voli samo kada je zajedno, taj ne pravi pitanje s kim je.

(40) Žene nisu ništa postigle. Nekada su bile neravnopravne sa pravim muškarcima. A sada su ravnopravne sa nikakvim.

(41) U Beogradu živi mnogo zaboravljenih ljudi. Neko ih je nekad ostavio i zaboravio.

(42) Odustanite danas od neke velike gluposti, pa proglasite petak svojim intimnim praznikom, i slavite ga svake sedmice.

(32) It's hard being alone. The only thing harder than that is when two people are alone. (35) If you can't study, marry. If you can't find work, make babies. Little problems can always be effectively solved with bigger ones. (38) Don't run after women, lest you crash into those running away from them.

(39) Love each other even when you're apart. That's true love. Those who only know how to love when they are with someone don't really mind who they're with. 

(40) Women have achieved nothing. Previously they were not on equal terms with worthy men, now they are on equal terms with losers.

(41) Belgrade is full of forgotten people. Once upon a time they were just left and forgotten.

(42) Today, abandon some foolish thing you were about to do, and proclaim Friday as your intimate holiday, and celebrate it every week. 

(43) A certain Jelena from the 5th Secondary School of Belgrade has finally found a boyfriend. She asked him, "Who are you?" and he answered clearly, "I am your boyfriend."

(44) Delight your feet! Wash them or change your socks. Wash your feet! That is the first prerequisite for good interpersonal relations!

(45) It's not hard to become so unhappy that you start to drink. People should be encouraged away from unhappiness, not from alcohol. Unhappiness is the greater vice.

(43) Jedna Jelena iz Pete beogradske je najzad našla dečka. Pitala ga je: Ko si ti? A, on joj je lepo rekao: Ja sam tvoj dečko.

(44) Obradujte svoje noge! Operite ih ili promenite čarape. Perite noge! To je prvi uslov za dobre medjuljudske odnose!

(45) Nije teško biti toliko nesrećan da bi čovek počeo da pije. Ljude treba odvikavati od nesreće, a ne od alkohola. Nesreća je veći porok.

(46) Mlade vaspitačice u beogradskim obdaništima pričaće i ovog jutra deci bajke. To su sretne priče o tome - šta se stalno dešava princeyama, a nikad vaspitačicama.

(47) Električni merači vremena, na hotelu Slaviji, na Albaniji i u Brankovoj ulici, odbrojavaju nam impulse života. Iznenadićemo se kad za rođendan ili Novu Godinu dobijemo račun. Odakle im te cifre?! Nigde nismo bili, ništa nismo radili, nismo imali na š...ta da utrošimo toliko života. Zaista: neki žive na sto strana i račun im je isti kao i nama, koji, takoreći, ne živimo.

(48) Neki ljudi nas ponižavaju svojom dobrotom. Odvikli smo se od dobrote. Ne razumemo zašto nam neko nešto čini ako ne traži nikakvu protivuslugu. Dobrota se ne može vratiti jer se i ne daje. Dobri ljudi su dobri zbog sebe, a ne zbog drugih.

(49) Požurite! Neko je krenuo ko zna odakle, možda čak iz Hamburga, da se sudari sa vama.

(50) Pre nego što krenete da tražite sreću, proverite - možda ste već srećni. Sreća je mala, obična i neupadljiva i mnogi ne umeju da je vide.

(51) Nemojte mnogo razmišljati kad pravite decu. Vi ih samo napravite a ona će posle razmišljati sama.

(52) Moglo bi nam biti mnogo bolje kad to ne bi zavisilo od nas. Na zalost, sva briga o nama prepustena je nama. Dakle, najgore moguce resenje. Zbog toga sa ogorcenjem mozemo reci - nismo to zasluzili.

(53) U naše vreme ljubav se vodila po strogo moralnim pravilima, kao šah: taknuto - maknuto. Ono što ste pipnuli, morali ste i uzeti. Danas nema takve strogosti. Pipajte koga hoćete, vraćajte poteze, bolje je i to nego da izgubite meč!

(54) Nasmesite se, sa mnogo dobrote i malo, malo gorcine. Oprostite zivotu i svetu sto nisu savrseni.

(55) Setite se sta ste juce radili. Pa, ako vas nije sramota, radite to isto i danas.

(56) Morate imati neko, makar tajno mesto, gde ćete praviti gluposti. Glupost je potrebna zdravlju. Sloboda da se prave gluposti je zdrava privilegija za koju se sami morate izboriti.

(72) If humans could turn themselves off like a light bulb, so as not to be wasteful, they would last longer. 

(73) Is that Belgrade metro coming any time soon?! Many are already underground, and still waiting.

(74) Today is Tuesday, a small day, an outsider, nobody's time, a waiting room for those who set off towards Wednesday or further.

(75) You think that life is torturing you, but we have the impression that it is you who is torturing, beleaguering and degrading life.

(76) You should use up all your youth before you get old. Too many old timers have great stockpiles of unfulfilled dreams from their youth.

(77) Yesterday, many drivers had the good fortune of avoiding any traffic misfortune. 

(78) Could people be better? They could, but nobody wants to be the first to start. 

(79) The snow is still falling, although it was told that it wouldn't be. 

(80) Yesterday, a father and daughter met up and agreed: If she stopped smoking, he'd buy her a car. And if she stopped drinking, he'd buy her a driving license as well. 

(81) Only cowards love several women at a time. Brave men aren't afraid to take the risk of loving just the one. 

(82) Sleeping we do nothing else. Sleeping's cheap. Sleeping we pose no threat to anyone else. But as soon as we wake up, like it or not, we have to do something else. And that's when a whole bunch of unnecessary problems start.

(83) If you want to be right all the time, you have to change your mind a lot. 

(84) Why should a man divorce? Primarily because he is married, followed by some other reasons. 

(85) Here we are, relatively unscathed, in the new day. On the sky's big screen the sun will soon appear anew like the opening credits at the start of a new day or week, which will carry us over from a black and white winter into the colour landscapes of spring and summer.

(86) It is a new day. Everyone has been offered the opportunity to do something for themselves or against everyone else. 

(87) There are fewer and fewer children in school. Schools will meet the same fate as our seaside hotels if they don't lower the prices of their services and if the teachers don't become more polite towards their guests.  

(88) We overheard a woman cursing a taxi driver this morning: I hope that your electricity meter runs the same as your taxi meter. 

(89) The sun has once again thawed Belgrade, since no one else wanted to. 

(90) Like every morning, Old Belgrade has set off into New Belgrade, and vice versa. The bridges are packed with cars. Both think it is better on the other side. Once they confirm that it is not, they will return to where they came from. 

(77) I juče je veliki broj vozača imao saobraćajnu sreću da izbegne nesreću. (78) Da li bi ljudi mogli biti bolji? Mogli bi, ali niko neće prvi da počne. (79) Sneg još pada, mada mu je rečeno da neće padati. (80) Juče su se najzad sreli jedan otac i jedna ćerka i ovako se dogovorili: Ako ćerka prestane da puši, otac će joj kupiti automobil. A ako prestane i da pije, kupiće joj i vozačku dozvolu. (81) Samo kukavice vole po nekoliko žena. Hrabri muškarci ne plaše se rizika da vole samo jednu ženu.

(82) Dok spavamo, ne moramo ništa drugo raditi. Spavanje je jeftino. Spavanjem nikog drugog ne ugrožavamo. A čim se probudimo i ustanemo, hteli - ne hteli, moramo se baviti još nečim. A tu onda iskrsavaju razni nepotrebni problemi.

(83) Ko želi da je stalno u pravu, mora često da menja mišljenje.

(84) Zašto bi čovek trebalo da se razvede? Pre svega zato što je oženjen, a zatim i iz nekih drugih razloga.

(85) Evo nas, prilično zdravih i živih, u novom danu. Na velikom ekranu neba uskoro će se pojaviti novo sunce kao špica serije dana i nedelja, koji će nas iz crno-bele zime odvesti u kolorisane predele proleća i leta.

(105) Ne vaspitavajte decu ako ne umete. Bolje je biti nevaspitan nego loše vaspitan.

(106) U Zemunu, na obali Dunava, kuva se i danas dobra riblja čorba. Do čorbe se stiže ovako: ide se do centra Zemuna, a onda dalje za mirisom čorbe.

(107) Bolje je ipak da spavate. Sve što prespavate - neće vam se dogoditi.

(108) Lakše bismo vaspitavali decu kada bi ona imala samo uši, a ne i oči.

(109) Tako je malo ljubavi među ljudima. Ko ume da voli, ne bi trebalo ništa drugo da radi.

(110) Početak jeseni odlaže se na neodređeno vreme. Dok ne prođu zima, proleće i leto.

(111) Teško očevima ženske dece kad pomisle šta su sve nekad i sami radili tuđoj ženskoj deci.

(112) Hrabri muškarci treskaju vratima kad ulaze u kuću, a kukavice samo kad odlaze.

(113) Ako vam ne ide škola - udajte se. Ako ne možete da nadjete posao - rodite dete. Manji problemi se uspešno rešavaju većim. 

(114) Juče je jedan roditelj zavapio na roditeljskom sastanku: Dajte mi dobro dete, pa ćete videti kakav sam ja otac!

(115) Žene vole da vole, a manje im je važno koga će voleti. A muškarci vole da su voljeni, ali bi hteli da biraju ko će ih voleti.

(116) Niko nema više od jednog života. Ali ima mnogo onih koji, pored svoga, troše i nekoliko tuđih života.

(117) Žena mora da je žena non-stop. Jer se nikad ne zna kad muževi mogu postati muškarci.

(118) Temperatura u Beogradu je ispod svake nule.

(119) Danas će biti lepo svima onima koji ne traže mnogo.

(120) Dva niska stepena jutrošnje temperature košava raznosi brzinom od osam i više metara u sekundi i rasporedjuje po nogama, ledjima i glavi stanovnika Beograda.

(121) Neki menjaju nove godine kao mala deca pelene. Čim u jednoj godini urade onu stvar, odmah traže novu i čistu godinu.

(122) Čuvajte svoje zdravlje. Negde, na nekom tajnom mestu, daleko, daleko od posla i porodice.

(123) Teško poslu na koji ste, po ovakvom jutru, krenuli!

(115) Women love to love, but are less bothered about whom they love. Men love to be loved, but would prefer to choose exactly who loves them. 

(116) No one has more than one life. But there are those who, aside from their own, use up other people's lives as well. 

(117) A wife must be a woman non-stop. She never knows when a husband might become a man.  

(118) The temperature in Belgrade is below every zero. 

(119) Today will be a good day for anyone who isn't expecting much. 

(120) Two low degrees of this morning's temperature are being carried by the southeastern wind at a speed of eight meters per second and quicker, around the legs, backs and heads of the residents of Belgrade. 

(121) Some people change new years like children change nappies. As soon as they soil one year they look for a new and clean year.

(122) Store your health somewhere safe; far from work and family. 

(123) God help the job to which you are going on a morning like this! 

(124) Here we are again, at the beginning. Today we'll again practice the complete programme of life; to be ready for when we eventually start living. 

(125) Rest if you have something to rest from, eat if you have something to eat, think if you have something to think about. 

(126) To the question 'How to lose weight' there is but one single answer: eat less. Similarly, to the question 'How to get rich' the answer is simple: work. Such logical and straightforward answers are not popular. The people who give such answers appear not to have understood the question. Because the real meaning behind those questions is as follows: 'How to lose weight without giving up food' and 'How to get rich without working', and 'How to finish school without studying', and 'How to achieve something in life without any effort'. That's what they're after. It would be great if there was a trick, some witty catch and solution. Damned be the intelligence which, to such simple questions, offers such complicated, impossible answers! 

(128) Why don't pharmacists let us try the medicine before buying, like cheese or fruit at the market? People have money. If they liked it they would buy one or two kilos of medicine. 

(129) Soon the newspapers will become more expensive again. Shame that this is never due to the content, but only the paper becoming more expensive.

(130) It's nice to be young, but it's no small feat to get old either. 

(131) While we still had common problems and interests, we appeared more human. Personal problems and interests have more or less degraded us. Not everyone should be allowed to have problems. 

(124) Evo nas još jednom na početku. Danas ćemo ponovo uvežbavati kompletan program života. Da budemo spremni kad jednom počnemo da živimo.

(125) Odmorite se ako imate od čega, pojedite ako imate šta, mislite ako imate o čemu. 

(126) Na pitanje - kako oslabiti? - postoji jedan jedini odgovor: treba manje jesti. I na drugo pitanje - kako doći do para? - odgovor je takođe cinično prost: treba raditi. Ovako logični i jednostavni odgovori nisu popularni. Njih daju oni koji se prave da nisu razumeli pitanje. Jer pravi smisao tih pitanja glasi: kako oslabiti a ne odricati se jela, i kako doći do para ne radeći, i kako položiti razred ne učeći, i kako postići nešto u životu ne trudeći se? To se traži. Bilo bi dobro da tu postoji neki štos, neka duhovita caka i rešenje. Prokleta neka je pamet, koja na laka pitanja daje tako teške, nemoguće odgovore!

(127) Mnogi beogradski pogoni rade na burek. Nekoliko hiljada kurira krenulo je da obezbedi tih nekoliko kritičnih tona bureka. Vruć burek izaziva vedra raspoloženja, pa će beogradska privreda, uz viceve i podrigivanje, zabeležiti novi skok.

(128) Zašto u apotekama ne dozvoljavaju da se probaju lekovi, kao sir i kajmak na pijacama? Ljudi imaju para. Kupili bi kilo ili dve kile leka ako im se dopadne.

(129) Uskoro će poskupeti novine. Sramota je što još nijednom nisu poskupele zbog sadržaja, već uvek i samo zbog poskupljenja hartije. 

(130) Lepo je biti mlad, ali nije mali uspeh ni ostariti.

(131) Dok smo imali samo zajedničkih problema i interesa, više smo ličili na ljude. Lični problemi i interesi prilično su nas degradirali. Ne treba svakome dozvoliti da ima problema.

(132) Ko se čuvao i sačuvao da dočeka i ovo jutro, sad sedi sanjiv na krevetu i pokušava da se seti - zašto.

(133) Ko ne zna šta mu je, neka pogleda gde mu je. Pa ako ga ne nađe - to mu je!

(134) Dan je okrugao kao Zemlja. Iznenadićete se kada na kraju današnjeg puta ugledate krevet iz koga ste jutros krenuli ili tek treba da krenete.

(135) Ko ustaje rano, može ne samo gledati, već i slušati kako pada lišće. U rano, tiho jutro čuje se kad suvi, krti list padne na trotoar.

(136) Lišće se umorilo i stari. Ono se naživelo svog malog i skromnog života.

(137) Mislili smo da ćemo već uveliko živeti napolju. Međutim, još uvek smo unutra. Napolje još nije spremno. Dekoracije još nisu završene, a i sa grejanjem nešto nije u redu. 

(138) Nova godina je dosla i prosla. Posle kraceg prekida, danas se nastavlja stara godina. 

(139) Nova godina ce, razume se, stici i onima koji je ne budu cekali. Medjutim, sva car i jesteu cekanju, a ne u Novoj godini. Lepo je cekati nesto u sta ste sigurni da ce doci. Cekalismo u zivotu razne stvari, to svi znamo, a uvek su nam i sigurno dolazile samo novegodine.

(140) Budimo iskreni i precizni kad se obraćamo mladima. Oni treba da budu onakvi kakvi smo mi NEKAD bili. A tek kad ostare, mogu biti ovakvi kakvi smo danas.

(141) Pokloni su retki i jeftini. Sve drugo je podmićivanje.

(142) Dolazi zima. Biće vam potrebne ili rukavice ili tudja ruka.

(143) Kiša je kapala, i rosila, i padala, i lila, i pljuštala... Samo još nije prestala.

(144) Naš grad se pretvorio u veliku čekaonicu. Svi čekamo lepše dane.

(145) Naše malo moze biti mnogo za one koji nemaju ni malo. 

(134) The day is round like the Earth. You'll be surprised when at the end of today's journey you behold the same bed whence you came this morning or are about to come. 

(135) Early risers, besides seeing, can also listen to the leaves falling. In the early, quiet morning you can hear the dry, brittle leaves fall on the pavement. 

(136) The leaves are old and tired. They have fulfilled their small and modest life. 

(137) We thought we would be living outside long ago. But we're still inside. Outside isn't ready yet. The decorations aren't quite done, and there's something wrong with the heating.

(140) Let's be honest and precise when we are addressing young people. They ought to be how we once were. And only when they get older, should they be like we are today. 

(141) Presents should be infrequent and cheap. Anything else is bribery.  

(142) Winter is coming. You're going to need either gloves or someone's hand. 

(143) The rain fell and poured and sprayed and gushed... it's done everything but stop.

(144) Our city has turned into a giant waiting room. We're all waiting for better days. 

(145) What's little to us can be a lot to those who don't even have a little.