Pola Chérie: Japan

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3/30/2011

What One's Own (Bruno Dayan Photography)

How vain we could be being unhappy having everything what one's need

How much can we be imprisoned in our own desires

And how blind can we become seeking only for material things we want to have

Here in Japan I saw by my own eyes how my compatriots lost everything they owned: houses, clothes, all the belongings.

I was devastated. My heart was broken.

There was an older man who managed to escape from tsunami. He said he lost everything he was working for whole his life.

'But I am living' he said. I am living.

His words gave me back a hope.

I have learn that everything was given to me and can be any time taken away.

And I have learned that the only thing which one’s owns is what we truly love, what is inside us and what no one can take away from us.

I appreciate everything I have more now. I appreciate every meal I can eat and every sunshine which makes me feel warmer. And I smile to my mother every time when she is leaving a house and we are saying goodbye to each other.

~Pola Chérie What one's own~

Brilliant Bruno Dayan's Photography http://www.brunodayan.com/

Don't forget to check out Bruno Dayan Celebrity's Photographs! AMAZING (loved him even more)!

3/19/2011

Don't Give Up

Go where your life wants you to be

where your heart finds it's place

where your pain hears it's lullaby

where your eyes can see the sunrise

Even if you are alone

Even if you feel like

your existence is just a number

counted dead or alive

Don't tell me so

You have to live

I want you to live

Don't give up

I beg you

Live

for me

for the people who are waiting for you in the future

for the people who needs you to stand up for them

for the children who needs a protection

for the lonely chick which fell out from the nest

Live

There is a Future

Don't give up

Live

~Pola Chérie Don't Give Up (Pola for Japan)~

Shades of Summer by Alex Freund, Models: Bekah Jenkins & Vanessa Milde; QVEST #44, Model: Merethe Hopland, Photographed by Jacob Sadrak, Styled by Cristian Temi; Vogue Paris December/January 2007.2008, Model: Isabeli Fontana, Photographed by Mario Sorrenti; Vogue Germany April 2011, Model: Britt Maren, Photographed by Claudia Knoepfel & Stefan Indlekofer, Styled by Nicola Knels; C: fashiongonerogue.com, fashioncopious.typepad.com

3/17/2011

I STAY, RIGHT HERE, IN JAPAN

Why does some people laugh when something bad happens in someone else's life? Why does some people seem to be having a joy from someone else's misfortune?

Since 11th of March my friends have been calling me and writing emails if I'm ok. Some of them were advicing me to come back to Europe. It was nice to know that they care about me and it helps me face the reality.

But there were people who were calling my house in Poland and asking my relatives if I am alive not introducing themselves. They didn't care if I am ok. They just wanted to check to have a topic to gossip about. I bet they are laughing and wondering when I will come back.

But let me make some things clear: I stay, right here, where I am now, in Japan.

Why Am I staying? I hadn't been living in Japan since I was 3 years old. I hadn't been attending to school here. I'd never had a chance to make close friends here. I speak fluently japanese but I barely can write kanjis. Whenever I use a metro or train I'm looking for english describsion. I am half Japanese but I don't feel and I have never felt as I am Japanese. I am the foreigner in 'my own' country.

But why should I leave? Why should I go back to Poland? Am I not the foreigner in Poland too? I will never belong to anywhere. And thats why I'm staying here. Where my life wanted me to be. Where I was given to be.

Some people will never understand that. They think they know me but the truth is I was near them only for a while. And they will keep talking behind my back. But I am ok with that. Because my back is the only thing they will see in their lives.

If laugh is your way to deal with things which you do not understand, you will cry when you finally realize how much you hurt people by it.

If you hate - it is your loss.

Because I will be ok.

Not today.

Not tomorrow.

But some day, I will be ok.

Pola Chérie

The Ones2Watch Issue #10 'Asylum', Model: Keshia, Photographed by Lee Cropper,Styled by: Tena Strok; Nana Kokaev Autumn(Fall)/Winter 2011 Ad Campaign, Model: Sarah Barros, Photographed by: Gustavo Marx; C: fashiongonerogue.com, fashioncopious.typepad.com, fashionising.com

3/16/2011

When You Are Gone

I wanted to go home

but there was no home

I called your name

but there was no answer

I tried to find you

but you were gone

Why did you leave me

When I love you so

~Pola Chérie When you are gone~

Guy Bourdin Photography C: www.guybourdin.org

3/15/2011

Fifth day after the Tragedy

I went to the park

for a walk.

They turned off all the lights in the city at ten o'clock. Sheduled blackout. But still makes me feel uncomfortable. They said sheduled blackouts can last for one month. Just like the aftershocks.

I was lucky. To be in the hometown of my mother, in one of the least damaged places in Japan. In the city where I was born. In the city which I left. To live 17 years abroad. To which I have returned

last November.

No water, no milk, no rice, no bread on the shelves of the shops if you don't hurry up in the morning. Lack of the petrol on the petrol stations too. But we are living. I don't remember what I have been doing for last five days. I went for a walk. All the shops and restaurants were closed. Many people were cleaning their houses.

Fifth day. I don't feel anything. Tired of watching the news. Not knowing why I am living. Usually empty park was full of children. Are the schools closed too?

Children laughting and playing happily.

Unaware of

people who are missing

people who lost their houses

people who lost their loved ones

people who are gone

and people who have to live

not knowing why.

Fifth day after the Tragedy

I went to the park

for a walk

In the city where